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VULSON DE LA COLOMBIÈRE, Marc - Les Portraits des Hommes Ill…
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VULSON DE LA COLOMBIÈRE, Marc - Les Portraits des Hommes Ill…
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Estimate €300
Voluntary lot
Description
VULSON DE LA COLOMBIÈRE, Marc - Les Portraits des Hommes Illustres François qui sont peints dans la galerie du Palais Cardinal de Richelieu. Avec leurs principales actions, armes et devises. Paris, Jacques Cottin, 1669. In-12, (4) ff, 400 pp, 26 h. t. portraits including that of Chancellor Séguier, pl. dark green morocco, spine ribbed with cold wires, int. dent, gilt tr. (DURU 1849).
SAFFROY III, 34114. Dedicated to Chancellor Séguier. First edition in 1650; often republished in-folio and in-8. Testimony to the gallery built by Richelieu in the Palais Cardinal in Paris. The twenty-five Illustrious Men, from Suger to Gaston d'Orléans, were chosen by Richelieu himself and executed by Vouet and Ph. de Champaigne. The portraits were of natural height and were accompanied by emblems and couplets specific to the characters, here enlarged in the edition (as there was not enough space in the gallery), and composed by the royal interpreter J. Guisse, a specialist in the genre. The portraits symbolise the Cardinal's career, his military qualities as well as his statesmanship: thus the Comte de Brissac for prudence; Boucicaut, loyalty; Marie de Médicis, liberality; the Cardinal de Lorraine, eloquence. (See M. Mac Gowan, The Phenomenon of the Portrait Gallery in: L'Age d'or du mécènat, Paris, 1985).
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