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Paris, France, United Kingdom
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Autour de la duchesse de Berry
Collection Hubert Guerrand-Hermès, Autour de la duchesse de Berry
Hubert Guerrand-Hermès was passionate about Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile, Duchess of Berry, a fantastic historical icon of the 19th century. The destiny of this princess could not have been more epic and romantic: married at 18 to the son of Charles X, the Duc de Berry, widowed at 22, exiled at 32, she fought ceaselessly to have the rights of her son Henri V to the throne of France recognised. She finally found refuge in Italy, before dying in 1870 at Brünnsee Castle in Austria.
A free and unconventional woman, from her early years in Paris the Duchess de Berry played an active role in cultural life and aroused the curiosity of the artists who gravitated around the court of Charles X. Through her many purchases at the Salons, she encouraged many of the painters of her time and built up a first-rate library. The bindings she commissioned made her library one of the most admired of the period, and were all masterpieces from the golden age of French bookbinding. An artist herself, cultured, free and passionate, the Duchess of Berry inspired many painters and designers. Like men of letters such as Chateaubriand, Dumas and Lamartine, many painters wanted to put her at the centre of one of their works.
"It was the beginning of a real passion, and it hasn't left me since", wrote collector Hubert Guerrand-Hermès in the catalogue for the exhibition Entre cour et jardin, dedicated to the Duchess and held at the Musée de l'Île de France in 2007. Over the years, Hubert Guerrand-Hermès has collected works that once belonged to the Duchess, as well as porcelain and books, trying to recreate the Duchess's fantastic library in his hotel in Lannion.
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0449: [Chevaux] 2 ouvrages aux armes du duc d'Angoulême, dont un manuscrit concernant ses éEst. €1,500-€2,000Lot Closed
0450: Crébillon, Prosper Jolyot de Œuvres complettes. 1785. 3 vol. en maroquin violet deEst. €1,000-€1,500Lot Closed
0451: [Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie Gabriel, comte de] Voyage pittoresque de la Grèce. 1782-1822. ÉEst. €30,000-€50,000Lot Closed
0452: Clérisseau, Charles-Louis Antiquités de la France. Paris, 1804. Un des 50 ex. sur grandEst. €6,000-€8,000Lot Closed
0453: [Collection des classiques françois] Somptueux ensemble en maroquin rouge aux armes. Un des 50Est. €8,000-€12,000Lot Closed
0454: [Costume] ─ Charles Aubry Collection des uniformes de l'armée française préEst. €3,000-€5,000Lot Closed
0455: [Costume] Collection des uniformes de l'armée française. 1823. Rare suite. De laEst. €2,400-€3,000Lot Closed
0456: Daumier, Honoré Les Cent et un Robert-Macaire. Paris, 1839-1840. Exemplaire de la duchesse deEst. €2,000-€3,000Lot Closed
0457: Deleuze, Joseph Philippe François Histoire et description du Museum d'histoire naturelle...Est. €2,000-€3,000Lot Closed
0458: Desfours de Mont, Franz Joseph Desfours de Mont. Tage-Buch der Feldzüge des Kriegs gegenEst. €2,000-€3,000Lot Closed
0459: [Dessin ─ Marie-Caroline, duchesse de Berry] 9 aquarelles, dont 2 signées par Caron,Est. €1,500-€2,000Lot Closed
0460: [Dessins] 96 dessins originaux de divers artistes, en 3 albums au chiffre de la duchesse de Berry ouEst. €3,000-€4,000Lot Closed
0461: [Dictionnaires] — Francesco Alberti di Villanova Dictionnaires italien-français,Est. €1,000-€1,200Lot Closed
0462: [Dictionnaires] Deux dictionnaires soigneusement reliés par Bradel et Simier aux armes de laEst. €1,500-€2,000Lot Closed
0463: [Didot — Collection de la duchesse d’Angoulême] 23 volumes en maroquin rouge, auxEst. €1,500-€2,000Lot Closed
0464: [Divers] 4 ouvrages aux armes de la duchesse de Berry, du duc de Bordeaux ou de la vicomtesse deEst. €1,500-€2,000Lot Closed
0465: Du Crest, Charles-Louis Traité de la monarchie absolue. 1816. Maroquin rouge aux armes du futurEst. €1,500-€2,000Lot Closed
0466: [Éphémérides & Postes] 5 ouvrages aux armes de Louis XVIII, Charles X ou de laEst. €1,200-€1,500Lot Closed
0467: Edouart, Auguste Collection de 10 silhouettes découpées, signées. 1831. Portraits deEst. €4,000-€6,000Lot Closed
0468: [Esclavage] ─ Georges Christophe Würtz Mémoire relatif aux anciens colons deEst. €1,500-€2,000Lot Closed
0469: Fénelon, François de Salignac de la Mothe Œuvres. 1820-1824. Exemplaire au chiffre deEst. €800-€1,200Lot Closed
0470: Florian, Jean-Pierre Claris de Œuvres. Exemplaire de la duchesse de Berry puis du libraire J.Est. €1,500-€2,000Lot Closed
0471: Gravelot, Hubert Francois — Charles-Nicolas Cochin Iconologie par figures ou traitéEst. €1,200-€1,800Lot Closed
0472: [Gravures] Trois recueils, dont Durdent et Duplessis-Bertaux, aux armes de la duchesse de Berry ouEst. €2,000-€3,000Lot Closed
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