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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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0545: Walsh, Joseph-Alexis Suite aux Lettres vendéennes. 1829. Reliure de Simier, armes de FrançEst. €2,000-€3,000Lot Closed
0546: Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, duc de Campaigns... Didot, [1818]. Exceptionnel exemplaire avec 20Est. €8,000-€12,000Lot Closed
0547: Zurlauben, Béat Fidèle de ─ Jean-Benjamin de La Borde Tableaux topographiques.Est. €5,000-€7,000Lot Closed
0550: A giltwood royal coat-of arms of Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile, duchesse de Berry, mid 19thEst. €2,000-€3,000Lot Closed
0551: Henri Buguet Louis XVIII and the royal family on the balcony of the Tuileries, 1815| Louis XVIII etEst. €3,000-€4,000Lot Closed
0552: A giltwood coat-of-arms, belonging to Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile, duchesse de BerryEst. €4,000-€6,000Lot Closed
0553: After Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun | D'après Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun Portrait of MarieEst. €6,000-€10,000Lot Closed
0554: Marie Caroline, duchesse de Berry Friars in the Carthusian monastery of San Giacomo in Capri |Est. €6,000-€10,000Lot Closed
0555: Lancelot-Théodore Turpin de Crissé The Temple of Juno in Agrigento | Vue du temple deEst. €12,000-€18,000Lot Closed
0556: A Sèvres porcelain dinner plate, dated 1816 | Assiette en porcelaine de Sèvres, datéeEst. €1,000-€1,500Lot Closed
0557: Four ivory miniatures in a gilt-frame representing the Royal family; a pocket book "ChansonnierEst. €300-€500Lot Closed
0558: A Sèvres porcelain bust of Louis XVIII, mid 19th century | Buste en biscuit de Sèvres deEst. €3,000-€5,000Lot Closed
0559: Robert Lefèvre Portrait of the Duchess of Angoulême | Portrait de la duchesseEst. €8,000-€12,000Lot Closed
0560: A jewelled gold and enamel Royal presentation box, Gabriel-Raoul Morel, Paris, circa 1800 and laterEst. €10,000-€15,000Lot Closed
0561: A two-coloured gold, enamel and ivory portrait miniature presentation snuff box, G. R. Marguerite,Est. €12,000-€18,000Lot Closed
0562: A Charles X gilt-bronze mounted elmwood and satinwood, ivory letter box, for the duchesse de Berry,Est. €20,000-€30,000Lot Closed
0563: A miniature of Marie-Caroline, Duchess of Berry, Auguste Garnerey (1785-1824), France, circaEst. €1,500-€2,500Lot Closed
0564: Eugène Joseph Dubois (1795 - 1863) Set of three commemorative medals with the profile of theEst. €2,000-€3,000Lot Closed
0565: A gold-mounted agate paperweight given by the Duchess of Berry to Princess Beauffremont, Palermo,Est. €1,500-€2,000Lot Closed
0566: A Charles X gilt-bronze mounted thuya burr letter casket, circa 1830 | Boîte à lettres enEst. €6,000-€8,000Lot Closed
0567: A two-colour gold and enamel presentation snuff box, Remond, Lamy & Co, Geneva, 1801-1804 |Est. €4,000-€6,000Lot Closed
0568: A royal pearl-set gold and enamel seal pendant, French, circa 1825-1830 | Sceau royal en or et éEst. €5,000-€7,000Lot Closed
0569: A four-colour gold snuff box, C.P. Petschler, Paris, circa 1820 | Rare et importante tabatièreEst. €10,000-€15,000Lot Closed
0570: A pair of bronze bracelets with miniatures of Francis I, King of two Siciles and Maria Isabella ofEst. €800-€1,200Lot Closed
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