Live auction - Lot 215
[Portraits]
Collection of 20 portraits of philosophers or writers.
18th c
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
Various sizes.
Framed (not studied outside frames).
Engravings by Edelinck (2), Le Vasseur, Foyer (2), Van Schley, Chereau, Virtue, Miger, Lubin, (2), Garneray, Alix, Moitte, A. de Saint-Aubin (2), Holl etc. Portraits of Pascal, La Fontaine, Bossuet (colour engr., brown.), Fontenelle (colour engr., brown.), Descartes, Malherbe, Marivaux, Hume, Saint-Èvremont, Ninon de Lenclos, Abbé Raynal, Joly de Fleury, Condorcet, Crébillon, Hobbes, Argenson, Montesquieu, Prévost, Bayle, Locke.
Joined: 3 engraved portraits. 19th c. Framed. Lecomte de Lisle, Schiller, Mistral. - 22 engraved or lithogr. portraits. 18th-19th c. Loose (some brown. etc.). Featuring i.a. Fenimore Cooper, W. Scott, Byron, Goethe, Helvétius, Shaftesbury, Gassendi, Buffon, Bertin, Mme de Warens, Voltaire, Moncrif, Abbé Nollet etc. - 1 framed chomolith. (46 pcs)