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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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0473: [Histoire] Mémoires du Cardinal de Retz et de Fonvielle, en maroquin de l'époque, auxEst. €1,500-€2,000Lot Closed
0474: Hardiviller, Charles Achille d' 66 dessins originaux : portraits de légitimistes. [Prague],Est. €5,000-€6,000Lot Closed
0475: [Henri IV] [Henri IV] ─ Bataille d'Arques. Manuscrit offert à la duchesse de Berry,Est. €3,000-€5,000Lot Closed
0476: Hume, David Histoire de la maison de Stuart sur le trône d'Angleterre. 1761. Exemplaire deEst. €1,000-€1,500Lot Closed
0477: Hugo, Victor Trois rares plaquettes. Sur la mort du duc de Berry, la naissance et le baptême duEst. €3,000-€5,000Lot Closed
0478: [Hugo, Victor] Le Conservateur littéraire, 1819-1820. Très rare collection complète.Est. €15,000-€20,000Lot Closed
0479: [Imprimerie royale ─ Eugène Duverger] Album typographique, 1830. Petit in-folio. MaroquinEst. €1,200-€1,800Lot Closed
0480: Isabey, Jean-Baptiste Voyage en Italie en 1822. Bel exemplaire aux armes de la duchesse de Berry.Est. €2,000-€3,000Lot Closed
0481: Jarry, Nicolas (attribué à) ─ Nicolas Robert Rituel de l'abbaye royale de SaintEst. €50,000-€70,000Lot Closed
0482: Jarry, Nicolas Adoration a Jesus naissant. 1654. Rare manuscrit de Nicolas Jarry. Maroquin rouge deEst. €3,000-€5,000Lot Closed
0483: Jaume Saint-Hilaire, Jean-Henri Plantes de la France. 1808-1809. 10 volumes. Maroquin vert aux armesEst. €4,000-€6,000Lot Closed
0484: Lami, Eugène Quadrille de Marie Stuart. [1829]. Rare album commémorant un bal donnéEst. €4,000-€6,000Lot Closed
0485: La Fontaine, Jean de Fables. Paris, 1755-1759. Veau marbré de l'époque. Exemplaire de laEst. €4,000-€6,000Lot Closed
0486: La Fontaine, Jean de Fables choisies. 1818. 2 volumes in-folio oblong. Reliure de Simier au chiffreEst. €1,500-€2,000Lot Closed
0487: [Langue basque] Deux ouvrages reliées pour la duchesse de Berry et pour le comte de Chambord.Est. €2,000-€3,000Lot Closed
0488: Le Tasse, Torquato Tasso dit La Gerusalemme liberata. Didot l'Aîné, 1784-1786. ExemplaireEst. €3,000-€5,000Lot Closed
0489: [Littérature] 6 ouvrages de Nostradamus, Capacoda, Montesquieu, etc., aux armes ou chiffre deEst. €1,000-€1,500Lot Closed
0490: [Littérature] 4 ouvrages d'autrices, reliés aux armes de la duchesse de Berry dont un parEst. €1,200-€1,500Lot Closed
0491: [Littérature classique] Homère, Villemain et Tacite, aux armes de la duchesse de Berry ouEst. €1,500-€2,000Lot Closed
0492: [Littérature] 4 ouvrages aux armes ou au chiffre de la duchesse de Berry. Estimate: Estimate:Est. €1,000-€1,500Lot Closed
0493: [Littérature] 4 ouvrages aux armes ou au chiffre de la duchesse de Berry. Estimate: Estimate:Est. €1,000-€1,500Lot Closed
0494: [Littérature] 6 ouvrages [1818-1828] reliés aux armes ou au chiffre de la duchesse deEst. €2,000-€3,000Lot Closed
0495: Longus Les Amours de Daphnis et Chloé. 1745. Reliure en veau blanc à incrustations deEst. €8,000-€12,000Lot Closed
0496: Longus Les Amours pastorales de Daphnis et de Chloé. 1787. Maroquin rouge de l'époque auxEst. €1,500-€2,000Lot Closed
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