Autour de la duchesse de Berry 2023-12-15 Auction - 244 Price Results - Sotheby's in France
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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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