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A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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Les Frères Haüy.
J. Boilly del. Alp. Boilly sc.
[n.d. c.1823.]
Rare engraving. 254 x 165mm. 10 x 6½".
Valentin Haüy in front of his brother Rene-Just Haüy. Valentin Haüy (1745-1822) was founder, in 1784, of the first school for the blind, the Royal Institution for the Young Blind in Paris. René Just Haüy (1743-1822() was a French mineralogist and is often referred to as the "Father of Modern Crystallography". Both brothers are buried together in the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise in Paris.
In the Wellcome Collection.
[Ref: 26075] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
J. Boilly del. Alp. Boilly sc.
[n.d. c.1823.]
Rare engraving. 254 x 165mm. 10 x 6½".
Valentin Haüy in front of his brother Rene-Just Haüy. Valentin Haüy (1745-1822) was founder, in 1784, of the first school for the blind, the Royal Institution for the Young Blind in Paris. René Just Haüy (1743-1822() was a French mineralogist and is often referred to as the "Father of Modern Crystallography". Both brothers are buried together in the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise in Paris.
In the Wellcome Collection.
[Ref: 26075] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)
Poinsot, (Louis.) Membre de la Legion d'honneur. Ne a Paris, le 3 Janvier 1777, elu en 1813.
Boilly 1822 [in plate].
[French, c.1822.]
Lithograph, sheet 320 x 240mm. 12½ x 9½".
Expressive bust portrait of Louis Poinsot (1777 - 1859), French mathematician and physicist. Poinsot was the inventor of geometrical mechanics. From a series of portraits of members of the Institut Royal de France. Poinsot was a member of the Académie des sciences, one of five académies that made up the Institut.
Not in Wellcome.
[Ref: 21608] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Boilly 1822 [in plate].
[French, c.1822.]
Lithograph, sheet 320 x 240mm. 12½ x 9½".
Expressive bust portrait of Louis Poinsot (1777 - 1859), French mathematician and physicist. Poinsot was the inventor of geometrical mechanics. From a series of portraits of members of the Institut Royal de France. Poinsot was a member of the Académie des sciences, one of five académies that made up the Institut.
Not in Wellcome.
[Ref: 21608] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
![[Les Quatre Heures du Jour.] Le Matin. [&] Le Midi. [&] Le Soir. [&] La Nuit.](jpegs/21705.jpg)
[Les Quatre Heures du Jour.] Le Matin. [&] Le Midi. [&] Le Soir. [&] La Nuit.
Prud'hom del. Lith par Jul. Boilly.
Marchant, Edit: r: de Rivoli, 140. Imp. Bertauts, Paris. [n.d. c.1849.]
Four india-laid lithographs, printed onto same sheet; india overlaps seen at sides of images. Sheet 311 x 450mm. 12¼ x 17¾".
Morning, personified by a draped woman seated on a couch and reading mischievous Cherubs wait patiently. Noon, personified by a nude woman bathing, while the Cherubs entertain her. Evening, personified by a nude woman draped in a shawl at her "toilette", looking in a mirror lit by candles held by admiring Cherubs. Night, personified by a nude woman sleeping with Cherubs and doves watching over her. Set of four printed form one stone. Julien Boilly (1796-1874)
BM: 1882,0211.571. [&] BM: 1882,0211.572. [&] BM: 1882,0211.573. [&] BM: 1882,0211.574.
[Ref: 21705] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Prud'hom del. Lith par Jul. Boilly.
Marchant, Edit: r: de Rivoli, 140. Imp. Bertauts, Paris. [n.d. c.1849.]
Four india-laid lithographs, printed onto same sheet; india overlaps seen at sides of images. Sheet 311 x 450mm. 12¼ x 17¾".
Morning, personified by a draped woman seated on a couch and reading mischievous Cherubs wait patiently. Noon, personified by a nude woman bathing, while the Cherubs entertain her. Evening, personified by a nude woman draped in a shawl at her "toilette", looking in a mirror lit by candles held by admiring Cherubs. Night, personified by a nude woman sleeping with Cherubs and doves watching over her. Set of four printed form one stone. Julien Boilly (1796-1874)
BM: 1882,0211.571. [&] BM: 1882,0211.572. [&] BM: 1882,0211.573. [&] BM: 1882,0211.574.
[Ref: 21705] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Institut Royal de France. Acad.ie des Beaux-Arts. (Peintre). Van Spaendonck, (Gérard) Membre de la légion d'honneur, Professeur, et un des administrateurs du Muséum royal d'histoire naturelle. Né a Tilburg, le 23 mars 1746. Elu en 1795.
Jul Boilly.
[n.d. c.1821.]
Lithograph, large margins. 344 x 235mm (13½ x 9¼").
Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822), the Dutch painter. In 1769 he moved to Paris, where in 1774 he was appointed miniature painter in the court of Louis XVI. In 1780 he succeeded Madeleine Francoise Basseport (1701-1780) as professor of floral painting at the Jardin des Plants, and was then elected a member of the Academie des Beaux-Arts. In 1788 he was appointed adviser to the Académie, and in 1795 became a founding member of the Institut de France. In 1804 he received the Légion d'honneur and soon afterwards was ennobled by Napoleon Bonaparte.
[Ref: 31235] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
Jul Boilly.
[n.d. c.1821.]
Lithograph, large margins. 344 x 235mm (13½ x 9¼").
Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822), the Dutch painter. In 1769 he moved to Paris, where in 1774 he was appointed miniature painter in the court of Louis XVI. In 1780 he succeeded Madeleine Francoise Basseport (1701-1780) as professor of floral painting at the Jardin des Plants, and was then elected a member of the Academie des Beaux-Arts. In 1788 he was appointed adviser to the Académie, and in 1795 became a founding member of the Institut de France. In 1804 he received the Légion d'honneur and soon afterwards was ennobled by Napoleon Bonaparte.
[Ref: 31235] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)