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PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
Watercolors of soldiers from the French royal household
Emmanuel Grammont, c.1890s
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Watercolors of soldiers from the French royal household
Emmanuel Grammont, c.1890s
GRAMMONT, Emmanuel (b. 1862). [Troupes à cheval de la Maison du Roi, Cavalerie et Dragon. France, c.1890s.]
Watercolors of French cavalry and dragoons from the royal household of France. The Maison militaire du Roi was the military part of the French royal household under the Ancien Régime. It was akin to the Household Division of the British Army, in that it comprised units serving as the sovereign’s personal guard and as elite troops during war. The artist here, Emmanuel Grammont, specialized in military themes. His watercolors, all unsigned, are copies of gouache originals in the Hermand Collection at the Bibliothèque de la Guerre. See L. Rousselot, Le Passepoil: Bulletin illustré de la Société d’Etudes des Uniformes (10 année, no. 2), pp. 25-36.
Folio (430 x 320mm). 48 watercolor drawings, each approximately 348 x 248mm, several heightened in silver and gold, mounted on card. Contemporary marbled-board portfolio, cloth spine, corners and ties (wear and rubbing). Provenance: Albert Millot (French collector of military costume books; ink monogram stamp on verso of each drawing; his sale A. Geoffroy frères, Paris, 5-7 May 1904, lot 84).
Emmanuel Grammont, c.1890s
GRAMMONT, Emmanuel (b. 1862). [Troupes à cheval de la Maison du Roi, Cavalerie et Dragon. France, c.1890s.]
Watercolors of French cavalry and dragoons from the royal household of France. The Maison militaire du Roi was the military part of the French royal household under the Ancien Régime. It was akin to the Household Division of the British Army, in that it comprised units serving as the sovereign’s personal guard and as elite troops during war. The artist here, Emmanuel Grammont, specialized in military themes. His watercolors, all unsigned, are copies of gouache originals in the Hermand Collection at the Bibliothèque de la Guerre. See L. Rousselot, Le Passepoil: Bulletin illustré de la Société d’Etudes des Uniformes (10 année, no. 2), pp. 25-36.
Folio (430 x 320mm). 48 watercolor drawings, each approximately 348 x 248mm, several heightened in silver and gold, mounted on card. Contemporary marbled-board portfolio, cloth spine, corners and ties (wear and rubbing). Provenance: Albert Millot (French collector of military costume books; ink monogram stamp on verso of each drawing; his sale A. Geoffroy frères, Paris, 5-7 May 1904, lot 84).
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Gillian Hawley