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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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0521: [Reliure] 5 ouvrages de religion aux armes, dont la Bible de Royaumont, 1811, et deux livres deEst. €1,500-€2,000Lot Closed
0522: [Restauration] 16 ouvrages en 3 volumes maroquin aux armes de la duchesse de Berry ou de LouisEst. €1,000-€1,500Lot Closed
0523: Robert, Hubert Les Soirées de Rome. [P., vers 1765.]. Rare suite de 10 planches de laEst. €3,000-€5,000Lot Closed
0524: Robertson, William 10 volumes: – Histoire de l'Amérique. Paris, 1780. 4 volumes. –Est. €1,000-€1,500Lot Closed
0525: Rousselet, Jean-Pierre ─ Pierre-Antoine Patel [Collectaire pour l'église Saint-Paul deEst. €40,000-€60,000Lot Closed
0526: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Lettres élémentaires sur la Botanique. 1789. 3 vol, maroquin vertEst. €1,000-€1,200Lot Closed
0527: Sibmacher, Johann New Wappenbuch... Nuremberg, 1605. Maroquin aux armes du duc de Gramont.Est. €1,200-€1,500Lot Closed
0528: [Sicile ─ Naples] 3 ouvrages sur l'Italie, Naples ou la Sicile, dont deux proviennent de laEst. €1,800-€2,200Lot Closed
0529: [Sicile ─ Naples] ─ Marzolla, Benedetto Atlante corografico storico e statistico delEst. €1,800-€2,200Lot Closed
0530: [Silva, Ercole] Dell'arte dei giardini inglesi. [1801]. aux armes de la duchesse de Berry. [1801].Est. €1,500-€2,000Lot Closed
0531: [Simier relieur du roi] 13 fers de reliure pour les membres de la famille royale, de Charles X auEst. €4,000-€6,000Lot Closed
0532: [Spectacle] 4 livrets d'opéra ou pièces de théâtre, 3 joués pour le mariageEst. €1,200-€1,800Lot Closed
0533: [Spectacle] 6 livrets d'opéra, pièces de théâtre, etc. Armes d'Alexandre Ier,Est. €1,500-€2,000Lot Closed
0534: [Spectacle] — Nicolas Charlet — Joseph Bellange Collection des costumes d'Irène.Est. €1,500-€2,000Lot Closed
0535: Sully, Maximilien de Béthune, duc de Mémoires des sages... [Château de Sully,Est. €5,000-€7,000Lot Closed
0536: Sully, Maximilien de Béthune, duc de Mémoires.. 1767. Reliés pour Marie-ThéEst. €3,000-€5,000Lot Closed
0537: Taylor, baron Justin ─ Charles Nodier ─ Alphonse de Cailleux VoyagesEst. €4,000-€6,000Lot Closed
0540: [Vènerie] Recueils des chasses de l'équipage du duc de Berry. 1816-1817. Manuscrit auxEst. €15,000-€20,000Lot Closed
0541: [Vènerie] L'Équipage du marquis de Chambray... 1894. In-folio. Album de 153 photographies.Est. €1,000-€1,500Lot Closed
0542: [Venise] — Giovanni Correr Venezia e le sue lagune. 1847. Exemplaire offert par leEst. €3,000-€5,000Lot Closed
0543: [Voyages de la duchesse de Berry] Réunion de 3 ouvrages. [1816-1828]. Estimate: Estimate: 1,000Est. €1,000-€1,500Lot Closed
0544: [Voyages] ─ Anders Sparrman 3 ouvrages de voyages aux armes de la duchesse de Berry et deEst. €2,500-€3,000Lot Closed
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