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[Portraits]
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DARET, Pierre
- Tableaux historiques ou sont grauez les illustres Francois et
estrangers, de l’un et de l’autre sexe, remarquables par leur naissance et leur fortune, doctrine,
pieté, charges et emplois. Avec les eloges (...). Paris, Daret, 1652, 4to, cont. sheep (worn), spine
on 5 raised bands (head and tail dam.), [6] engr. ff., 103 pl. (title somewhat stained). Good copy.
€ 250/400
First printing
(2nd 1656) of this French portrait gallery by P. Daret (1610-1675), including
1
ill. titlepage
, 1
front.
to the dedic. to Duchesse de Chevreuse, 1
armorial pl.
and
103 portrait
i.a.
Innocentius X, Henri IV, Marie de Medicis, Louis XIII, Louis XIV (as a boy), Charles I (England),
Gustav Adolf and Christina (of Sweden), Leopold Wilhelm (Austria), Richelieu, Mazarin, Frederik
Hendrik (Nassau) etc. Armorial bookpl. Vicomte Vilain XIIII.
Ref.
Cicognara 2019. Bn-Opale plus
(1).
422
[Portraits]
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Interesting collection of 13 portraits
, 17th c. Most after Rubens. Various sizes (mostly
large). Some trimmed to the platemark or nearby, some underlaid, some marg. def.
€ 200/400
Isabella Estensis, Francisci Gonzagae March. Mantovae uxor, after Tizian and Rubens. Frayed
r. edge.-
Pourbus, Paulus
- Nicolaus Rockox after Van Dyck, before the erasing of the name of
Rubens. -
Pontius, Paulus
- D. Isabella Clara Eugenia, Hispaniarum infans, &c., 58,5 x 42,5
cm. -
Id.
- Satia te sanguine quem semper sitisti, 40x 58,8 cm. Tear +/- 10 cm rep., underlaid. - Casper
Gevartius, Tear in text area. -
Id.
- P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus, 1638. All 3 pcs after
Rubens. -
Id.
- D. Marius Ambrosius Capellus, after à Diepenbeek. -
Id.
- Antonius De Brun, after
A. van Hulle. -
Galle, Cornelius
- Justus Lipsius. 2 ex. (1 trimmed to the platemark). -
Id.
- Lucius
Annaeus Seneca, after Rubens. Collector’s stamp on verso. -
Van Merlen, Corn.
- Boar hunting,
after Rubens, 44 x 59,5 cm. - L. Annaeus Seneca. Frontisp. op Lipsius’ “Opera omnia”.
423 [Portraits]
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LARMESSIN, Nicolas de
- Les augustes representations de tous les roys de France
depuis Pharamond, iusqu’a Louys XIIII. dit le Grand, a present regnant. Avec un abrege historique.
Paris, Wid. P. Bertrand, 1679, lge 4to, cont. gilt sheep (rubbed), covers with gilt double ruled border,
gilt spine on 6 raised bands (front joint split), sp. edges, engr. title, 64 pl. (minor soiling, worming
in top fore-edge corner not touching plates). Good copy.
€ 300/500
First printing
(repr. 1699 and 1714) of this impressive suite of
64 portraits
by N. de Larmessin
(1638-1694), representing French Rulers to Louis XIV within an oval frame and with their arms
below and engr. texts. Mod. bookpl. [Bob Luza].
Ref.
Brunet III-841. Bn-Opale plus.
424
[Rembrandt, manner of]
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[CAYLUS, Anne-Claude-Philippe de Tubières-Grimoard de]
- [The
story of Joseph, 1757]. Suite of 10 etchings, +/- 21 x 16 cm, laid paper 42,5 x 27,5 cm; engr. name
of Rembrandt, monogr. “C scul.”, numbers and French captions. Bound in 1 vol., folio, spr. paper
(upper cover loose, spine lacking). 1st pl. sl. brown., marg. dampstain to pl. 1 & 2, some traces of
use.
€ 250/350
Rare complete set, also publ. in “Histoire de Joseph, accompagnée de dix figures (...) gravées sur
les modèles du fameux Reimbrandt par Monsieur le Comte de Caylus”, Amsterdam, Neaulme, 1757.
After drawings formerly attributed to Rembrand, now considered possibly as the work of his most
gifted pupil, Gebrand Van Eeckhout. The Comte de Caylus (1692-1765) was a French antiquarian,
proto-archaeologist and man of letters; he also was an art collector and a talented engraver and
etcher.
425
[Rome - obelisks]
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Disegno delle cinque guglie principali che si vedono in Roma
alzate in
honore della S. Croce, con le giuste misure di ciascuna, 1773. Large engraving publ. Rome, C.
Losi, c. 73 x 43 cm (trimmed to the platemark). Fold at top, minor spotting. In very good condition.
€ 150/250
Rare print, published by the print publisher C. Losi, with 5 views of Egyptian obelisks in Rome. With
notes in italics (5 columns at bottom). I.a. the obelisk on the Piazza della Minerva (on Bernini’s little
elephant), placed there by Alexander VII in 1667.