Le Duc de Montpensier (Antoine-Philippe d’Orléans), after Victor-Amédée Faure

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EDOUARD-HENRI GIRARDET (NEUCHÂTEL 1819-1880 VERSAILLES)
Le Duc de Montpensier (Antoine-Philippe d’Orléans), after Victor-Amédée Faure
signed with initials ‘E.G.’ (lower right)
black chalk, graphite, gray wash, heightened with white
8 x 4 1⁄8 in. (20 x 10.5 cm)

Provenance

Richard Seymour-Conway, Marquess of Hertford (1800-1870), Paris.
Sir Richard Wallace (1818-1890), Paris.
Sir John Murray Scott (1847-1912), London.
Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962), Knole, Kent.
with G. Seligman & Cie, Paris (Exposition de quelques dessins du XIXe siècle exécutés sur l’ordre du Roi Louis-Philippe d’après les peintures d’Histoire du Musée de Versailles, Paris, 1929, no. 24).
Claus and Sunny von Bülow, Newport; gifted to
Russell B. Aitken (1910-2002), New York.

Literature

J. Richardson, ed., The collection of Germain Seligman. Paintings, drawings and works of art, privately printed, 1979, no. 26, ill.

Exhibited

New York, French Embassy, Services du Conseiller Culturel, Commémoration du centenaire de la révolution de 1848, March-April 1948 (without catalogue).

Engraved

Alphonse Charles Masson (C. Gavard, Galeries historiques de Versailles, Paris, 1838-1845, X, series X, section VII, no. 2719).

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Lot Essay

Girardet was a Swiss-born artist who worked mainly as an engraver, but was also a painter and draftsman. One of his most important projects was as an engraver for Jacques-Dominique-Charles Gavard's Les Galeries historiques de Versailles which he worked on for a twelve year period from 1837-1849. Gavard's publication coincided with Louis-Philippe's transformation of Versailles into a national museum. The 12 volumes included over 1,800 engravings after works in the royal collection.

This drawing is after a portrait of King Louis-Philippe's younger brother, Antoine-Philippe, by Victor-Amedée Faure (1801-1878). Exhibited at the Salon in 1835, the painting has recently entered the collection of the Musée Condé in Chantilly (inv. 2024-8-1).

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