[40 PORTRAITS 17th-18th INCLUDING ONE FROM THE MARIETTE COLL - Lot 415

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[40 PORTRAITS 17th-18th INCLUDING ONE FROM THE MARIETTE COLL - Lot 415
[40 PORTRAITS 17th-18th INCLUDING ONE FROM THE MARIETTE COLLECTION and 27 PORTRAITS 19th of various sizes ENGRAVED ON COPPER] 20 17th portraits of counts of Holland, Zeeland and Friesland (ca. 95 x 70 mm) each with caption and coat of arms, a frontispiece with the motto Eendracht maeckt macht and an introductory poem by I. de Decker, pasted on corners on paper. Portraits and frontispiece from the work of Petrus Scriverius (Pieter Schrijver), Beschryvinge van alle de graven van Holland, Zeeland ende Friesland (1678). Complete set, some portraits detached from the support, traces of angular glue spots not affecting the portraits; XVI-XVII-XVIIIth portraits of various sizes, including 2 large portraits (ca. 330 x 225 mm) engraved by POILLY, after Lens. Initialed in pen and ink on the back by P.Mariette dated 1664 (this is the famous collector Pierre II MARIETTE (1634-1716) and handwritten mention De La Place, Conseiller au second ; portraits in-8 or in-12 of writers, ecclesiastics, and famous men, among them Marivaux, Frederic II, Joseph Haydn, Chenizot, Boutault de Russy, Colardeau, Antoine Cooper, Earl of Shaftsbury (1671-1713), Vondel (1587-1679), Martinus Steyaert (1647-1701) engraved by KRAFFT, Dominique Baudier (1561-1613), an in-4 portrait (1759) of Pieter Burmann (1713-), drawn by J. M. Quinkhard (1688-1772) and engraved by J. Houbraken (1698-1780) and a 16th portrait of Charles de Bourbon, archbishop of Rouen by Thomas DE LEU (1560-1612); 6 plates in-12 from De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (The Great Theatre of Dutch Painters), The Hague, Gaillard, 1718-1721, by Arnold HOUBRAKEN (1698-1780); 27 portraits or 19th portraits in-8 or in-12: Spontini, Rollin, John May, Seneca, Pichault de la Martinière, La Condamine, Saint-Simon, Joseph von Sonnefels, Querelle dit Courson, the Marquise du Châtelet, Pinel, Santeuil, Collé, generals of the Empire, Madame de Genlis, Schultz, Victor Cousin etc. Some minor defects and foxing to some plates. That is 67 prints. of a set of about 500 prints of various sizes from the 16th to the 19th century, coming from the Touraine descent of the collection of Jean-Joseph CARLIER (1794-1874), historian and writer, continued by his son Louis CARLIER (1846-1921), journalist close to the Saint-Simonian movement, and his grandson Pierre CARLIER (1877-1923), former consul general in Usbuk (Turkey). This collection, started and formed mainly in the early and mid-19th century, includes five prints from the MARIETTE collection, initialed and dated on the back in pen and ink by Pierre II MARIETTE (1634-1716). These last ones come most probably from the MARIETTE sale of 1775. Some lots have been joined with the handwritten documents concerning them by Jean-Joseph CARLIER. The description has been as precise as possible, but does not exclude small defects, visible on the photos. The prints are almost all copper engravings, etchings or burins, and unless otherwise stated, are fixed by glue dots on strong 19th century paper and are sold as is. The dimensions are taken at the bowl unless otherwise stated.
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