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J.J.Rousseau.
J.J.Rousseau. L'Original appartient a M.r le C.te Louis de Giardin.
[After François Gérard] Y.in Melliaze [[?]Lithograph signature] Imp. Lith de Delpech. Latour pinx.t
[n.d c.1825]
Fine lithograph, sheet 510 x 335mm (20 x 13¼") very large margins.
Portrait of Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-78), half-length, turned to left, looking to the viewer, wearing a fur-trimmed coat and a fur hat. The print is actually after Baron François Pascal Simon Gérard's (1770-1837) black and white chalk drawing which was after Maurice Quentin de La Tour's (1704-88) painting which is claimed to be the only one that Rousseau admitted as a likeness.
Original black and white chalk drawing in National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
[Ref: 60608]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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Voltaire.
Voltaire.
J. Pass sc. [After Maurice Quentin de La Tour.]
Engraved for the Encyclopaedia Londinensis, 1828.
Stipple, pt printed in colours, 175 x 125mm (7 x 5"). Small margins.
Oval half-length portrait of French philosopher, François Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778).
[Ref: 60397]   £130.00   (£156.00 incl.VAT)
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[Germany] Woldemar de Löwendal,
[Germany] Woldemar de Löwendal, Comte de S. Empire, Cheval.er des Ordres du Roi, Mareshal de France.
Peint par M.Q. De la Tour. Les Orn.inv. par H. Gravelot. Gravé par J.G. Will à Paris 1749.
Rare engraving. 475 x 350mm (18¾ x 13¾"). Trimmed to plate, repaired, nick in top edge.
Portait of Ulrich Frédéric Woldemar, Comte de Lowendal (1700-1755). Although born in Hamburg, Woldemar was a successful military leader for France during the War of the Spanish Succession, capturing Ghent in 1745 and Bergen-op-Zoom in 1747 (for which he was made a Marshal of France). In 1755 Louis XV sent Lowendal to negotiate with Prussia to prevent the Seven Years War from breaking out, but he died before making any progress. Engraved by Johann Georg Wille (1715-1808) after Maurice Quentin de La Tour (1704-88).
[Ref: 28653]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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