Lot n° 206
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The Men of the Revolution, painted from... - Lot 206 - Drouot Estimations
The Men of the Revolution, painted from life, by COSTE D'ARNOBAT. (Paris, January 21, 1830). In-12 of [2ff-]127 p. mounted in interfoliated laid sheets of documents, autographs and drawings; large volume in-fol. bound in red morocco, cold filets on the boards and on the spine, gilt Gallic cock in the tail; red morocco lining with gilt framing of gilt filets with revolutionary emblems, mosaic garland of green morocco, green silk endpapers, combed paper backsheets, gilt edges (Chambolle-Duru).
Extraordinary collection of very precious autographs of the main characters of the history of the Revolution, illustrated with original drawings. Pierre-Nicolas COSTE D'ARNOBAT (Bayonne 1731-Paris 1808), a former gendarme of the house of Louis XV, who became a littérateur and journalist, published at the end of August 1793 a rare booklet : Anecdotes curieuses et peu connues sur différens personnages qui ont joué un rôle dans la Révolution; the 1830 reissue, in a limited edition and under a new title, bears on the false title: "Pièces historiques rares ou inédites, pour servir à l'instruction du temps présent", and in the running title: "Notes sur les hommes de la Révolution". This edition is presented here with great luxury, reassembled in large format, and illustrated with original documents, drawings and autographs of the greatest interest, which offer an extraordinary panorama of the French Revolution. The documents are presented by printed serpents. 35 original DRAWINGS or watercolors : - Claude-Louis DESRAIS, ink and sepia wash (21.5 x 16 cm): the Third Estate presenting the Rights of Man to France. - Augustin de SAINT-AUBIN, portrait of NECKER (after Duplessis), pencil drawing (17 x 10,8 cm). - Théophile FRAGONARD, The Executor SAMSON, signed watercolor (18 x 11,5 cm). - Félix PHILIPPOTEAUX, 5 watercolors (about 15,5 x 10,5 cm each): the Fatherland in danger and the engagement of the volunteers; Mirabeau at the tribune; the drownings of Nantes; the painter David; Hoche. - Auguste RAFFET, 27 black pencil drawings, several enhanced with wash, vigorous preparatory drawings for Lamartine's Histoire des Girondins, most of them annotated by him with the stamp of the Raffet Sale 1911 (various sizes): Marie-Antoinette, Mlle Maillard as Goddess of Reason (2, one of which is watercolored), Santerre, Petion, Vergniaud, Guadet, Roland, Mme Roland, Danton, Camille Desmoulins, Marat, Charlotte Corday, Fouquier-Tinville, Carrier, Couthon, Théroigne de Méricourt, Saint-Just (2), Robespierre, Billaud-Varenne, Collot d'Herbois, Tallien, Ange Pitou, Carnot, Dumouriez, Lafayette (watercolor), Bonaparte (2). 28 engravings, most of them of the period, portraits and various scenes, illustrate this volume throughout the pages. 65 precious autographs and original documents. Most of the autographs presented here being very rare, we have not repeated them. Some are very precious historical documents. - MARIE-ANTOINETTE. Autograph envelope "To Madame la comtesse du Roure", with red wax seal of arms, which contained the following relic:
- LOUIS XVI. Autograph note on a folded paper "hair of the dauphin", accompanied by a lock of hair of Louis XVII. - LOUIS XVII. Autograph page (in-4), rare writing assignment with the words "Louis Charles" repeated five times, from his writing master Jourdan-Dumesnil. - MADAME ELISABETH. Autograph letter to the Baron de Breteuil, asking him to have Mme de Causans named in place of his mother-in-law who died... (1 page in-12). - MARIE-THÉRÈSE CHARLOTTE de France, MADAME ROYALE. - Autograph writing assignment signed "Marie Therese Charlotte fecit anno 1786" (2 p. in-4). - L.a.s. to Viscount de Chateaubriand, Goritz April 10, 1842, thanking him for the services his "talents have rendered to Letters, to Religion and to the Monarchy" (1 p. in-8, adr.).
- Marie-Thérèse-Louise de Savoie-Carignan, Princess of LAMBALLE. - L.a.s. to Louis XVI, Versailles January 1, 1784, for her wishes (1 p. in-fol.). - Minutes by the Section of the Quinze-Vingts of the burial of "the head of the cidevant psse de Lamballe" in the cemetery of the Foundlings, September 3, 1792 (1 page in-4, ink seal of the District). - Jean-Baptiste CLÉRY. P.a.s. declaring that his only income for the last ten years has been "a place as valet to the son of Louis Capet", Juvisy sur Orge 9 frimaire II (half page in-4). - Honoré-Gabriel de MIRABEAU. - L.a.s., November 25, 1790, in favor of Volney (1 p. in-4). - Procès-verbal de sortie du Donjon de Vincennes, signed by him, December 13, 1780; on the reverse side, procès-verbal de l'entrée du marquis de SADE au Donjon de Vincennes, signed by him, February 13, 1777 (in-fol., soiling)
- Jacques NECKER. L.a.s. speaking of his daughter Mme de Staël (1 p. ½ in-4). - Chrétien-Guillaume Lamoignon de MALESHERBES. L.a.s. to surgeon Jacques Tenon (1 p. in-4). - Raymond de SÈZE. L.a
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