5865 - 6291 FINE ARTS - GRAPHIC ART, 16th-19th CENTURY
- Trimmed outside the platemark; sl. agetoned. = Petitjean/ Wickert 213, first state (?) of 4.
AND 12 other portraits by the same of French prelates: Francois de Nesmond, bishop of Bayeux (PW 182, 2nd state of 4); Louis Doni d'Attichy, bishop of Autun (PW 61, only state); Michael Le Masle, Prior des Roches and personal secretary of cardinal Richelieu (PW 106, 1st state of 4); Victor (le) Bouthillier, archbishop of Tours (PW 35, 2nd state. With manuscript collector's entry of "Claude Augustin Mariette 1690 excudit", Lugt 1786); Ferdinand de Neufville de Villeroy, bishop of Chartres (PW 183, later state); François Bosquet, bishop of Montpellier (PW 24, 2nd state of 2); Marc Bochart, abbot of Champigny and canon of Paris (P&W 21, 1st state of 2); François Blanchard, abbot of Saint-Genevieve and superior of the orders of canons in France (PW 18, 2nd state. From the collection of Friedrich August II of Saxony with his mark (Lugt 971 on recto); César d'Estrées, duke-bishop of Laon and cardinal (PW 70, only state); François Servien, bishop of Bayeux (PW 209, 4th and final state) and 2 different portraits of Pierre-Arnaud du Cambout de Coislin, bishop of Orleans and later cardinal (PW 48, 1st state of 3 and PW 49, 1st state of 2. Ample margins).{#}
- Mostly tipped onto mount, occas. w. glue visible on recto.
= Portraits of i.a. Johannes BECIUS (by D. van HOOGSTRATEN), Johannes POLYANDER (by W. DELFF), Philips MARNIX VAN SANT-ALDEGONDE, Nicolaas BULLIUS (by J. MATHAM) and Comte de BUFFON (by J. HOUBRAKEN).
- Trimmed to the borderline and on the original mount.
= LNP 19 (hoofdprent), the 3rd state (of 3); Van H. 174.
AND 2 other printdrawings, i.a. by the same (kinderkopje (LNP, proef 18)).{#}
- Cut on the borderline.
= With the collector's mark of Ottokar Maschka (Lugt 1903/ 1904) on verso and with annotations in German and a monogram (?). LNP 18.
= From the Latin and German language edition. I.a. Mary of Brabant, Heinrich of Riedenburg, Hartmannus, Gamelbertus, Gebehardus, Richilde.
- Fine impression, cut ±1 mm outside the image; sm. wornhole in left edge, affecting the image.
= Klesl later became cardinal and was an important advocate for interreligious peace in the Thirty Year's War.
AND 1 other by the same: portrait of Elias Schmidgrabmer (Hollstein 324, 2nd state of 2. Trimmed on/ just within the borderline).{#}
- Formerly tipped on, two sm. stains on left edge on verso. = Hollstein 4.
Blooteling, Abraham (1640-1690). (Portrait of the artist Frans van Mieris). Mezzotint after Frans VAN MIERIS, 20,3x14 cm. - AND 1 other small engraved portrait of Karel van Mander by Jan VAN DE VELDE II.{#}
- Sl. duststained/ soiled in margins.
Cars, Laurent (1699-1771). (Portrait of the sculptor Michel Anguier). Engraving after G. REVEL, cm. Dupuis, Charles (2nd half 18th cent.). "Nicolas Coustou. (...) sculpteur ordinaire du Roy, recteur en son Academie Royale". Engraving after LE GROS, 40x29 cm. (platemark), 34,2x23,5 cm.
- Later impression on wove paper.
AND 3 others, i.a. an other engraved portrait of the artist Simon Voüet by Jacques LUBIN.{#}
- Upper margin cut short w. sl. loss of image (crown and wreath around the coat of arms cut short); soiled, mostly in margins; three formely closed sm. tears in left margin.
= Very rare and large lithographic portrait, printed on verso of an engraving by Lepicié after David Teniers. Decrouan was a publisher of prints and active on the address in rue St. Severin between 1822 and 1829. Charles X was crowned in 1824.
AND ±50 other portraits of various French people, all small sizes, various techniques, 17th-19th cent.{#}
- Waterstain along right edge of right margin; margins sl. duststained.
= Rare. Part of a pair of portraits of the king and queen of France on a medallion hanging in a street lantern. It was published in 1792, shortly after their arrest and imprisonment by the French revolutionary forces. The portrait of the French king has the inscription 'Cette suspension vaut la déchéance' above, suggesting that the suspended lanterns deserve to fall.
- All (sl.) browned/ agetoned. = Hollstein 77-116, the third and final state.
- Cut to the image. = Holstein 164, 6th state of 8. With a collector's stamp "Dr WG" within a circle, not in Lugt.
AND 2 other portraits of the same, incl. the same portrait (8th and final state).{#}
- Wide margins.
Kilian, Bartholomeus (1630-1696). (Portrait of Philipp Jacob Spener). Engraving after Johann Georg WAGNER, 32,5x22,7 cm. (incl. caption), 1683.
- Cut on the platemark; sl. foxed/ fingersoiled in lower margin/ caption.
= Spener (1635-1707) is regarded as the founder of Pietism.
AND ±20 others, incl. 13 engr. portraits of German nobility (±1750).{#}
- Mostly fine.
= With portraits of i.a. Antoon van Tassis/ Marten Rijckaert (by Jacob NEEFS after Antoon VAN DYCK. Hollstein 44 and 90), Pierre Jeannin (by Willem SWANENBURG. Hollstein 40), Adam Sasbout (by Boëtius Adamsz. BOLSWERT. Hollstein 387), Theodorus Galle (by Lucas VORSTERMAN after Antoon VAN DYCK. Hollstein 63) and the sons of Peter Paul Rubens (by Gustav MÜLLER after RUBENS).
= I.a. of David Garrick (mezzotint by Charles SPOONER after Thomas HUDSON), queen Caroline of Great Britain (etching by G. VERTUE after AMICONI), king James VI (engraving after Simon VAN DE PASSE), Oliver Cromwell (engraving by Bernard PICARD after R. WALKER), Adolph Friedrich, duke of Cambridge (lithograph).

















































