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Lithographs  Actors
Lithographs Actors
  F ro m circa 1841 comes this small collection of   six (6) French actors, musicians, and male stage performers . These are full-page lithographic portraits of Parisian performers in the roles that made them famous. Each sheet measures 12 inches x 9.25 inches (Height x Width).   Compared to the second half of the 19th-century, there is little visual record of the French stage of the early 1840s, These prints are important because the artist drew directly from life. The lithographs are printed on   chine appliqué   (fine china paper) laid down on thicker wove paper. Each of these male performers is worthy of further research. For example,   Étienne Marin Mélingue   (1808-1875) was a French actor and sculptor. Born in Caen, the son of a volunteer of 1792, he early went to Paris and obtained work as a sculptor on the church of the Madeleine, but his passion for the stage soon led him to join a strolling company of comedians. Finally chance gave him an opportunity to show his talents, and at the Porte Saint Martin he became the popular interpreter of romantic drama of the Alexandre Dumas, père type. One of his greatest successes was as Benvenuto Cellini, in which he displayed his ability both as an actor and as a sculptor, really modelling before the eyes of the audience a statue of Hebe. He sent a number of statuettes to the various exhibitions, notably one of Gilbert Louis Duprez as William Tell. Mélingue's wife, Thodorine Thiesset (1813-1886), was the actress selected by Victor Hugo to create the part of Guanhumara in Burgraves at the Comédie-Française, where she remained ten years. On the other hand,   Claude Louis Séraphin Barizain   (1783 – 1843) was a French actor, known as   Monrose . He was born in Besançon, and was already playing children's parts at the time of the Revolution. He was called to the Comédie-Française in 1815, and was received   sociétaire   in 1817. A small, active man, with mobile and expressive features and quick, nervous gestures, he was noted as the rascally servant in such plays as   Le Barbier de Séville   and   Les Fourberies de Scapin . His son,   Louis Martial Barizain   (1809–1883), also called Monrose, was also an actor. Six  Handsome 19th-century Lithographs of Famous French Actors by the artist Alexandre Lacauchie from the series  Galerie des artistes dramatiques   (c. 1841-1842):   1. Mr. ETIENNE MELINGUE, dans LE MANOIR DE MONTLOUVIER 2. JOANNY (Jean-Bernard Brissebarre) 3. BOUTIN dans L’OUVRIER 4. LEPRINTRE Jeune 5. ODRY 6. CLAUDE-LOUIS MONROSE dans L’ETOURD
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Lucy Percy, Countess of Carlisle (English Courtier) after Anthony Van Dyke
Lucy Percy, Countess of Carlisle (English Courtier) after Anthony Van Dyke
Lucy Percy, Countess of Carlisle (English Courtier) after Anthony Van Dyke An Antique Stipple Engraving of "Lucy Percy, Countess of Carlisle" Engraved by T. A. Dean from the original portrait by Sir Anthony Van Dyke Produced by Harding, Triphook & Lepard, Finsbury Square, London 1st March 1825 This item comprises the portrait as described above in good condition for its age. Overall Size:- 8" x 10" including the mount, Image Size:- 4" x 5" approx (oval centre) Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle (1599 – 5 November 1660) was an English courtier known for her beauty and wit. She was involved in many political intrigues during the English Civil War. She was born Lucy Percy, the second daughter of the 9th Earl of Northumberland, the famous "Wizard Earl." She became the second wife of James Hay, 1st Earl of Carlisle. Her charms were celebrated in verse by contemporary poets, including Thomas Carew, William Cartwright, Robert Herrick and John Suckling, and by Sir Toby Matthew in prose. She was a conspicuous figure at the court of King Charles I. A contemporary scandal made her the mistress successively of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, and of John Pym, his parliamentary opponent. Strafford valued her highly, but after his death, possibly in consequence of a revulsion of feeling at his abandonment by the court, she devoted herself to Pym and to the interests of the parliamentary leaders, to whom she communicated the king's most secret plans and counsels. Her greatest achievement was the timely disclosure to her cousin Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex of the king's intended arrest of the five members of Long Parliament, which enabled Essex and the others to escape. However, she appears to have served both parties simultaneously, betraying communications on both sides, and doing considerable mischief by inflaming political animosities.  In 1647, she attached herself to the interests of the moderate Presbyterian party, which assembled at her house, and in the Second Civil War showed great zeal and activity in the royal cause, pawning her pearl necklace for £1500 to raise money for Lord Holland's troops, establishing communications with Prince Charles during his blockade of the Thames, and making herself the intermediary between the scattered bands of royalists and the queen. As a result, her arrest was ordered on 21 March 1649, and she was imprisoned in the Tower of London, where she maintained a correspondence in code with the king through her brother, Lord Percy, until Charles went to Scotland. According to a royalist newsletter, while in the Tower she was threatened with torture on the rack to gain information. She was released on bail on 25 September 1650, but appears never to have regained her former influence in the royalist counsels, and died soon after the Restoration. Alexandre Dumas probably based Milady in his The Three Musketeers on Lucy Hay. She was the subject of a risqué poem by John Suckling (poet) Upon My Lady Carlisle's Walking in Hampton Court Ga
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Eugène Sue
Eugène Sue
Eugène Sue - French Novelist (1804-1857) by A. H. Payne - c1830 Stipple Engraving of Eugène Sue (Joseph Marie Eugène Sue) Engraved by A. H. Payne from an original portrait produced in London & Paris circa 1833 This item comprises the image as shown above, in good clean condition for its age.  The main image is set within a decorative border depicting scenes and characters from his novels. Overall Size:- 10" x 12" approx Image Size:- 6 1/2" x 7 1/2" approx Joseph Marie Eugène Sue (20 January 1804 – 3 August 1857) was a French novelist. He was born in Paris, the son of a distinguished surgeon in Napoleon's army, and is said to have had the Empress Joséphine for godmother.  Sue himself acted as surgeon both in the Spanish campaign undertaken by France in 1823 and at the Battle of Navarino (1828). In 1829 his father's death put him in possession of a considerable fortune, and he settled in Paris. A street in Paris is named for Eugene Sue, in the 18th Arrondissement: Rue Eugene Sue is located near the Poissonnière Metro station, and is not far from Montmartre and the Basilica of the Sacré Coeur. His naval experiences supplied much of the materials of his first novels, Kernock le pirate (1830), Atar-Gull (1831), La Salamandre (2 vols., 1832), La Coucaratcha (4 vols., 1832-1834), and others, which were composed at the height of the Romantic movement of 1830. In the quasi-historical style he wrote Jean Cavalier, ou Les Fanatiques des Cevennes (4 vols., 1840) and Lautréaumont (2 vols., 1837). His Mathilde (1841) contains the first known expression of the popular proverb "La vengeance se mange très-bien froide", lately expressed in English as;  "Revenge is a dish best served cold". He was strongly affected by the Socialist ideas of the day, and these prompted his most famous works, the "anti-Catholic" novels: Les Mystères de Paris (10 vols., 1842-1843) and Le Juif errant (tr. "The Wandering Jew") (10 vols., 1844-1845), which were among the most popular specimens of the roman-feuilleton. He followed these up with some singular though not very edifying books: Les Sept pêchés capitaux (16 vols., 1847-1849), which contained stories to illustrate each of the Seven Deadly Sins, Les Mystères du peuple (1849-1856), which was suppressed by the censor in 1857, and several others, all on a very large scale, though the number of volumes gives an exaggerated idea of their length. Some of his books, among them Le Juif Errant and the Mystères de Paris, were dramatized by himself, usually in collaboration with others. His period of greatest success and popularity coincided with that of Alexandre Dumas, père, with whom he has been compared. Sue has neither Dumas's wide range of subject, nor, above all, his faculty of conducting the story by means of lively dialogue; he has, however, a command of terror which Dumas seldom or never attained. After the revolution of 1848 he sat for Paris (the Seine) in the Assembly from April 1850, and was exiled in consequence of his protest against the coup d'état of 2 December 1851. This exile stimulated his literary production, but the works of his last days are on the whole much inferior to those of his middle period. Sue died at Annecy (Savoy) in 1857.
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Thimoleon de Cosse de Brissac
Thimoleon de Cosse de Brissac
PORTRAIT XVIIIe - THIMOLEON DE COSSE DE BRISSAC 1777 PORTRAIT XVIIIe DE THIMOLEON DE COSSE  Comte de Brissac, Chevalier du Roi, Gouverneur d'Anjou de Tourraine et Maine Naquit en 1543, mort en 1569 Tiré de L'Ouvrage "L'Europe Illustre" par Dreux Du Radier en 1777 Portrait gravé par Odieuvre Format 155/110 mm, gravure coupée à la cuvette, contrecollée sur papier canson ancien de 290/210 mm Ce n'est pas une reproduction Gravure en bon état Portrait gravé par Odieuvre Il fut élevé enfant d'honneur auprès de Charles IX qui, parvenu à la couronne, le fit, en 1560, gentilhomme ordinaire de sa chambre, et lui donna, en 1561, la charge de colonel général de l'infanterie française de là les monts. Il fit ses premières armes en 1562, au siège de Rouen, et servit, la même année, à la défense de Paris ; il joignit ensuite l'armée du Lyonnais, commandée, par le duc de Nemours, où il servit comme colonel de l'infanterie, à la tête des bandes de Piémont. Au siège de Lyon, en mars 1563, le comte de Brissac, ayant attaqué sans succès le faubourg Saint-Just, arrêta les ennemis par sa fermeté, et se retira toujours en combattant. La paix fut signée le 13 du même mois. Charles IX créa Brissac chevalier de son ordre, capitaine de cinquante hommes d'armes, lui donna la charge de grand fauconnier, vacante par la mort de son père, le gouvernement de la ville et du château d'Angers, et la charge de premier panetier, en survivance du maréchal de Brissac, son oncle. Les Turcs faisaient le siège de Malte en mars 1565 ; une nombreuse noblesse résolut de secourir cette place ; Brissac, fut de cette expédition. L'arrivée de ce secours étonna les Turcs qui levèrent le siège ; mais, bientôt, instruits du petit nombre d'hommes dont ce renfort était composé, ils descendirent de nouveau dans l'île. Brissac décida les troupes chrétiennes à sortir de leurs retranchements eues poussèrent jusque dans leurs vaisseaux les Turcs, qui abandonnèrent leur entreprise, après avoir perdu 30 000 hommes. Brissac revint en France. En 1567, la guerre recommença ; on rangea toute l'infanterie française en six régiments, dont trois étaient sous les ordres du colonel général de là les monts, et trois sous ceux de Brissac, colonel général de là les monts. Il servit à la tête de ses trois régiments à la bataille de Saint-Denis, au combat de Sarry, près de Châlons, à la bataille de Jarnac, en 1569, et au siège de Mucidan, en Périgord, où il fut tué le 28 avril 1569, à 26 ans.
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Francois duc de Vendome Beaufort
Francois duc de Vendome Beaufort
PORTRAIT XVIIIe FRANCOIS DUC DE VENDOME BEAUFORT- 1777 PORTRAIT XVIIIe DE FRANCOIS DE VENDOME Duc de Beaufort, Pair de France, Grand Maître, Chef de la navigation  Naquit à Paris en 1606, mort en 1669 Tiré de L'Ouvrage "L'Europe Illustre" par Dreux Du Radier en 1777 Portrait gravé par Odieuvre Format 250/185 mm Ce n'est pas une reproduction  Une légère oréole en marge droite, gravure en bon état *** François de Bourbon-Vendôme, 2e duc de Beaufort (1665), fils de César de Bourbon-Vendôme et de Françoise de Lorraine, est un petit-fils de Henri IV né le 16 janvier 1616 et mort le 25 juin 1669. Il est resté célibataire et décédé sans postérité. Il entra très jeune dans l'armée puisqu'il participait à l'expédition de Savoie dès 1628, âgé de douze ans seulement. Il se distingua aux sièges de Corbie, d'Hesdin et d'Arras. Suivant l'exemple de son père, il conspira contre le cardinal de Richelieu et dut s'exiler un temps en Angleterre. En 1643, il fut le chef d'une des principales actions contre Jules Mazarin, la « Cabale des Importants ». Anne d'Autriche le fit arrêter et incarcérer au château de Vincennes, dont il s'évada en 1648. Il se cacha d'abord au château de Chenonceaux puis dans le Vendômois. Il joua un rôle important pendant la Fronde en 1649. En 1652, ayant un désaccord avec son jeune beau-frère le duc Charles Amédée de Savoie-Nemours, il se battit en duel et le tua. Les Parisiens le surnommèrent le « Roi des Halles ». S'étant soumis, il se réconcilia avec la Couronne en 1653, et fut chargé de plusieurs expéditions importantes. Nommé à la charge de grand maître, chef et surintendant général de la navigation, il commanda en 1662 la flotte française et remporta de nombreux succès contre les Turcs en Méditerranée. En 1665, il battit deux fois sur mer les Algériens. En 1669, il conduisit des secours aux Vénitiens contre les Turcs, et dirigea les troupes françaises défendant Candie contre les troupes ottomanes[1]. Il fut tué durant un assaut après s'y être couvert de gloire. « Facilité brillante pour le galimatias, éloquence grotesque, un torrent de non-sens. Il ne lui manquait rien pour charmer une sotte ». J. Michelet Le duc de Beaufort apparaît dans Vingt ans après d'Alexandre Dumas père ainsi que dans sa suite, Le Vicomte de Bragelonne. Il est également un des héros principaux du roman en trois tomes de Juliette Benzoni, Secret d'État. Les tomes sont intitulés : La Chambre de la reine, Le Roi des Halles et Le Prisonnier masqué. Sur la foi d'une assertion du poète dramatique Lagrange-Chancel, il a parfois été identifié à l'Homme au masque de fer  
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