1817 ENORMOUS French Revolution Portraits Folio Napoleon Lafayette Bertaux ART

1817 ENORMOUS French Revolution Portraits Folio Napoleon Lafayette Bertaux ART

Jean Duplessis-Bertaux was a famous late 18^th-century French painter best-known for his paintings of scenes and portraits from the French Revolution. Many of these paintings were published in the work ‘Tableaux Historiques de la Revolution Francaise’, an enormous folio of the paintings of Duplessis-Bertaux. Each of these works of art features a portrait of a famous figures of the French Revolution, along with a short biography.

It includes speeches and correspondence concerning the Revolution along with 9 preliminary engravings:

• Assembly of notables, held at Versailles on February 22, 1787
• Bed of justice, held at Versailles on August 6, 1787
• Charles-Philippe d’Artois leaving the court of aids on August 17, 1787
• Extraordinary session, held by Louis XVI at the Palais de Justice on November 19, 1787
• Arrest of d’Eprémesnil and Goislard, councilors to the Parliament of Paris on May 6, 1788
• Fire of the guardhouse on the Pont-Neuf in Paris on August 9, 1788
• The people force those passing on the Pont-Neuf to salute the statue of Henry IV on September 16, 1788
• Gathering at the Faubourg Antoine on April 28, 1789
• Shooting at the Faubourg Antoine on April 28 1789

Notable figures featured in this folio include:

• Napoleon Bonaparte
• Charles-Alexandre de Calonne
• Jean Paul Marat
• Marquis de Condorcet
• General Lafayette
• King Louis XVI
• Louis Philippe II Duke of Orleans
• Anacharsis Cloots
• Maximilien Robespierre
• Claude Roberjot
• Charles Le Brun
• Victor Moreau

Item number: #27098

Price: $1950

DUPLESSI-BERTAUX, Jean [painter]

[Tableaux historiques de la Révolution française]

[Paris, L’éditeur, 1817.] 1^st edition

Details:

• Collation:
  • 36
    • Wanting title page
  • 75 exquisite, folio engravings
• Provenance: Bookplate – Hart
  • Motto: VIVE UT VIVAS
• Language: French
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~19.5in X 12.75in (49.5cm x 32.5cm)
• EXCEEDINGLY RARE, valuable, and desirable

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