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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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0400: Alibert, Jean-Louis Physiologie des passions, 1826. Exemplaire sur Chine dans une belle reliureEst. €1,500-€2,000Lot Closed
0401: [Almanachs] 8 almanachs en reliures brodées, peintes et ornées de miniatures. 1776-1833.Est. €1,000-€1,500Lot Closed
0402: [Almanachs] 4 almanachs royaux aux armes ou au chiffre de Louis XVIII ou de la duchesse de Berry.Est. €1,500-€2,000Lot Closed
0403: [Alpinisme] ─ Henri de Tilly Ascensions aux cimes de l'Etna et du Mont-Blanc, 1835. ExemplaireEst. €600-€800Lot Closed
0404: Angoulême, Marie Thérèse Charlotte de France, duchesse d' Portefeuille brodé parEst. €2,500-€3,000Lot Closed
0405: [Artois, Louise d’] 5 ouvrages en 9 volumes, à ses armes, reliés par Bozerian ouEst. €2,000-€3,000Lot Closed
0406: [Artois, Louise d’] La Toilette de Louise Marie-Thérèse de France. 1853. Reliure enEst. €1,800-€2,200Lot Closed
0407: Augustin, saint (Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis) De Trinitate (IV-XV) ; Confessiones (I-V). Latin,Est. €80,000-€120,000Lot Closed
0408: Balzac, Honoré de Manuscrit autographe signé : "Sur la destruction projettée duEst. €2,000-€3,000Lot Closed
0409: [Beaux-arts] ─ Charles-Paul Landon Annales des beaux-arts. 1819 et 1822. Maroquin rouge auxEst. €1,500-€2,000Lot Closed
0410: Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Jacques Henri Paul et Virginie. Paris, 1806. In-4. Relié parEst. €1,000-€1,500Lot Closed
0411: Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Jacques Henri Paul et Virginie. Paris, 1806. Magistrale reliure de SimierEst. €80,000-€120,000Lot Closed
0412: [Berry, Charles-Ferdinand d’Artois, duc de] 50 documents, manuscrits ou imprimés,Est. €3,000-€5,000Lot Closed
0413: [Berry, Charles-Ferdinand d’Artois, duc de] 4 ouvrages sur la vie et la mort deEst. €2,000-€3,000Lot Closed
0414: [Berry, Charles-Ferdinand d’Artois, duc de] Ouvrages sur la vie et la mort du duc de Berry, enEst. €3,000-€4,000Lot Closed
0415: Berry, Marie-Caroline, duchesse de Précieux journal autographe, pour l'année 1821. SousEst. €3,000-€5,000Lot Closed
0416: Berry, Marie-Caroline, duchesse de Journaux de voyages, en France. 1828-1829. Courriers et documentsEst. €2,000-€3,000Lot Closed
0417: Berry, Marie-Caroline, duchesse de Manuscrits autographes, datant des premiers mois d'exil enEst. €7,000-€10,000Lot Closed
0418: [Berry, Marie-Caroline, duchesse de] Analyse des pièces saisies à Nantes, 1832. DocumentsEst. €2,500-€3,000Lot Closed
0419: [Berry, Marie-Caroline, duchesse de] 150 lettres et documents sur sa captivité, sa grossesse etEst. €2,500-€3,500Lot Closed
0420: Berry, Marie-Caroline, duchesse de Exceptionnelle correspondance couvrant près de 40 annéEst. €4,000-€6,000Lot Closed
0421: Berry, Marie-Caroline, duchesse de 27 registres de correspondance, de sa main ou d'un secréEst. €4,000-€6,000Lot Closed
0422: [Berry, Marie-Caroline, duchesse de] Registre de condoléances après son décès,Est. €1,000-€1,500Lot Closed
0423: [Bibliothèque française] Collection de 12 ouvrages en 30 volumes. Paris, Ménard etEst. €1,500-€2,000Lot Closed
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