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Jules Lemaitre (1853-1914), member of the French Academy, antiDreyfusard and president of the Patriotic French League. Few documents about Freemasonry. Autograph manuscript signed twice ” Jules Lemaitre ” (on the 12th page), no place no date [around 1899]. 13 numbered […]
形態之吉凶 陰陽合復學 [The Doctrine of In-Yô brought back to the sexual principles of the male and female]. Japanese copy handwritten in the 18 th century (Edo era), a text from the Genroku era 元祿年百書 (1688-1704) (printed seal and […]
Christophe Huet (1700-1759). Scatological monkeyings. [The Forgotten enema], unsigned and untitled drawing, pen and brown ink (13,5 x 19,5 cm) with The enema given and The enema brought, 2 copper engravings (15 x 21 cm). Around 1742. […]
Jean Cocteau. [Diaghilev et Nijinski] [Дягилев и Нижинский]. Sketch in ink, signed and dated ” 1913 “. Dim. 26,5 x 20,5 cm. Framed, golden frame. Exceptional drawing to our knowledge unpublished. 1913 is the year of the creation […]
Pierre Chatillon (1885-1974), Swiss illustrator. [German High Command during the Great War] Hindenbourg [sic], on Kronprinz, Tirpitz [and the generals] Below, Bernstorff, Linsingen, Moltke, Bissing, and Woyrsch. Series of 9 captioned and signed portraits-charges, no date [1914-1918], no place. […]
Elise Marianne de Lamartine, née Mary-Ann Elisa Birch (1790 – Paris, 1863), Artiste Peintre et sculptrice française d’origine anglaise, married Alphonse de Lamartine the 6 June 1820. Autograph letter signed ” your M – “, no place [Saint-Point?], on […]
Lighthouse St. George Reef, Californie. [Technical plan in half vertical cut of the lantern of St. George’s Lighthouse]. No place, 14 septembre 1886. Drawing in watercoloured China ink (68 x 48 cm.) of the focal plane of the […]
Le Prince de Hombourg, T.N.P., Chaillot, May 1952. 23 anonymous sketches in ink, elegantly handcoloured and embellished with gold and silver, annotated, some captioned (“Gérard Philipe “, “l’électeur de Brandebourg Jean Vilar “, “Jeanne Moreau “, “Jean Négroni “), with some sketches of […]