- Lot 270

[PORTRAITS] FRENCH AND DUTCH SCHOOLS - Portraits, allegories, putti... Set of +/- 50 engravings. 17th-19th c. Various sizes. 1.38 engravings including 32 portraits. 17th-19th c. Various sizes, between +/- 90 x 50 mm and +/- 260 x 180 mm. Some of them mounted on cardboard or paper. Some light staining and soiling, generally good condition. - Crowned heads, statesmen and warriors, aristocrats: Emperor Maximilian I, Henry IV (in medallion, gr. in stipple heightened with watercolor), Christian VII of Denmark, Joseph II, Louis XVI, Don Juan of Austria, Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, Princes Jean and Albert de Ligne Counts of Arenberg, Philippe de Croÿ Duke of Arschot, Cornelis de Wiit (allegory of the victory at the naval battle of Chatham in 1667), Marshal Count Maurice de Saxe, Marshal Ney, Lucy Harington Countess of Bedford, Lady Mary Arundell of Wardour, Cagliostro, etc. - Philosophers, men and women of letters: Molière (2 frontispieces), Jean de La Bruyère, Voltaire, Rousseau (2 engravings: monument and tomb, the latter in proof before the letter), Mme de Sévigné, Cornelis de Bie, Alfred de Vigny...- Various subjects: Alexander the Great defeating King Darius (pen sketch of a contemporary hand on the reverse); ambassadors of the French king to Siam; painter and female model in studio, after Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne (collector's stamp); etc. 2 - Lot of 16 engravings representing a.o. allegories, mythological figures, putti, etc. 17th-18th c. Various sizes, between +/- 80 x 130 mm and +/- 190 x 270 mm, on laid paper except 1 on vellum skin. Some of them mounted on cardboard or support paper. Some light soiling, rare stains and wetness, 1 plate cut too short with small worm gallery (Sobrietas), otherwise generally fair condition. Contains a.o. 2 frontispieces with allegory of the time (1 from History of the Brandenburgs, gr. by G.F. Schmidt); "Printing descending from the heavens" by J.V. Schley, 1739; 2 virtues (Sobrietas, Fortitude); chariot of Phaeton; "Silvie delivered by Aminte"; etc. SET +/- 50 PIECES.