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Fri 26 Apr

Horace VERNET (Paris, 1789-1863) - Napoleon at Montereau on February 18, 1814. Oil on canvas, signed lower right "Horace Vernet". Re-tooled. In a gilded wood frame with palmettes at the corners. H. 54.5 x W. 65 cm. Frame: H. 68 x W. 78 cm. Provenance Osenat sale, Fontainebleau, December 20, 2018, lot 172 (sold for €31,250). History The Battle of Montereau took place on February 18, 1814 at Montereau (Seine-et-Marne), resulting in a victory for the French under Napoleon over Austrian and Württemberg troops commanded by the Royal Prince of Württemberg. At the beginning of 1814, the Bohemian army, a combination of Prussians, Austrians and Germans, crossed the Rhine in an attempt to invade France. At the gateway to the Seine-et-Marne region, the troops encountered the French army, and suffered Napoleon's offensive at Montereau. After a bloody battle, the French suffered heavy losses, but many Bohemian army prisoners were captured, including one of Prince de Schwartzenberg's generals. The battle of Montereau was one of the last victories of Napoleon's army. Horace Vernet - and not Eugène Lami, as many engravers and lithographers in the second half of the 19th century assumed - chose to depict the Emperor in a cloud of smoke, in the thick of battle, but concentrating on checking the cannon fire of his artillerymen. Literature Cat. exhibition, Horace Vernet (1789 - 1863), Château de Versailles, November 14 - March 17 2024, under the dir. of Valérie Bajou, ed. Faton, 2023.

Estim. 10 000 - 15 000 EUR

Fri 26 Apr

SÈVRES - Set of 10 porcelain soup plates, agate blue background, decorated on the rim with a frieze of gold palmettes and in the center with a rosette with palmettes, edged with gold fillets. Firing chips and cracks. Manufacture royale de Sèvres, 1832, 1833, 1834, 1844 and 1845. Dated marks in blue with King Louis-Philippe's cipher, marks in red "Château de St Cloud" and "Château de Compiègne", gilder's marks Moyez. D. 24 cm. Provenance Service of King Louis-Philippe at the Châteaux of Saint-Cloud and Compiègne. History Louis-Philippe's first order for one of his residences came relatively early: in April and June 1832, the Sèvres manufactory was asked to supply a 1036-piece service (including 300 dinner plates) for the Château de Saint-Cloud, despite the King's lack of interest in this residence. The choice of this palace is certainly explained by the fact that it had strangely lacked a service worthy of the royal table since Louis XVI's miniature, mozaic service. Indeed, Josephine took the brown-red service with flowers from Malmaison after Redouté (1805), Cardinal Fesch received the lapis-blue service with heads imitating the cameo initially intended for Saint-Cloud (1808) and Compiègne recovered the gold service with garlands of flowers initially intended for the Clodaldian residence (1809). This was the beginning of the interconnections between Compiègne and Saint-Cloud, as Louis-Philippe decided to deliver the same service with an agate-blue background, a frieze of palmettes printed in gold, and a rosette in the middle of the pieces likely to be used at Compiègne, as early as January 1833 (2218 pieces). Under the Restoration, the "capraire" service was used in both residences. This similar choice obliged the Maison du Roi, in a letter dated January 31, 1833, to ask the Manufacture to differentiate the destination of each piece by means of an "inscription underneath", which would in fact be a red stamp on the reverse, alongside the Manufacture's usual manufacturing and decorative marks. This decision, which was unique in the history of royal services in France, was applied to all of King Louis-Philippe's table services, with the exception of the Bals service and only the dessert services (ordered by the King as such, although all the royal table services were in fact starter and dessert services).

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Fri 26 Apr

RARE SHAKO D'OFFICIER DE GRENADIERS DU 93e RÉGIMENT D'INFANTERIE DE LIGNE, MODÈLE 1812, PREMIER EMPIRE. - Black felt-covered shaft (moth marks), leather cap, gold passementerie braid, black velvet bourdalou. With its gilded brass eagle plate with the number "93" in cut-out silver-plated metal (possibly reported, minor accidents), gilded brass scale chinstrap and grenade bosses, patent leather visor with brass snap ring (fractured). Officer's round cockade, scarlet pompom (missing inner cap, partly reassembled in the Empire period). First Empire period, 1812 model, worn in 1813. Provenance Osenat sale, Fontainebleau, November 20, 2016, lot 633. History The 93rd line infantry regiment, recruited from the Vendée region, took this name in 1803 and was disbanded in 1815. It distinguished itself particularly during the 1809 campaign at Eckmuhl, Essling and Wagram. In 1810, the regiment was assigned to the Dutch observation corps, then in 1811 to the army of Catalonia. In 1812, it took part in the Russian campaign as part of the 3rd corps of the Grande Armée, where it fought in the battles of : Smolensk, Valoutina, La Moskowa, Mojaïsk, Krasnoë, La Bérésina, Dresden, Leipzig, Magdebourg. In 1813, three battalions took part in the German campaign. In 1815, assigned to the Armée du Nord, it took part in the defeat at Waterloo (source: Bertrand Malvaux). Exhibitions - Napoleon Bonaparte and the Vendée. Saint-Sulpice-le-Verdon, Logis de la Chabotterie, May 1-October 17, 2004, and La Roche-sur-Yon, Hôtel du département, May 18-October 17, 2004. - Napoleon The Eagle Over Europe, Four exhibitions in China, Hubei Provincial Museum, Tianjin Museum, Lianonig Provincial Museum, Nanjing Museum, 2015.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Fri 26 Apr

RARE KÉPI DU GÉNÉRAL JOFFRE PORTÉ LORS DE LA BATAILLE DE LA MARNE EN 1914 - Kepi in madder-colored cloth with gold braid and soutache, headband in black cloth entirely embroidered with two oak leaf courses and edged at the top with a double cordonnet of gold thread and a baguette in gold sequins and cannetilles. Black waxed and varnished leather visor, lined with black embossed morocco, and trimmed with a black lacquered calfskin ruffle folded astride the outer edge. Unmarked black silk inner headpiece. Poor condition (holes and accidents, in need of restoration). First World War era. Total height with visor 11 cm, height of black headband 5.5 cm, height of madder headband 4.5 cm. Presented on a red velvet cushion adorned with seven silver-plated marshal's stars (stains). L. 33 cm. The attribution of this kepi is confirmed by a number of documents, including handwritten letters from Dr. Sichère and Paul Dubure, sales slips, period postcards showing the kepi worn by General Joffre, etc. It was worn by General Joffre from the start of the First World War until his elevation to the title of Marshal of France, when he donated it to Mr. and Mrs. Jozereau. Provenance - General Joseph Joffre (1852-1931), used in 1914, 1915 and 1916. - Given in 1917 by his wife to M. and Mme Gaston Jozereau as a token of friendship. - Sale to the estate of M. Jozereau, Maître Godeau, December 6, 1950, lot 63 (sold for 600 frs). - Collection Paul Dubure, military antiquarian in Paris. - Thierry de Maigret sale, Drouot, October 12, 2006, lot 47 (sold for €2,430). - Private collection, Paris. History Joseph Joffre, from a modest family in Rivesaltes, Pyrénées-Orientales, entered the École Polytechnique in 1869. His studies were interrupted by the war, and he first saw action at the siege of Paris in 1870. As an officer in the engineering corps, he helped to defend the capital in 1874, then the Pontarlier region in 1879. After the Franco-Prussian War came the period of colonial conquest. Joffre was to take part in this period, and for 15 years served with distinction in a wide variety of countries. Put at Admiral Courbet's disposal in 1885 during the war against China, he led the siege of Ba-Dinh, commanded the engineers in Formosa, then Hanoi, where he organized the defense of Upper Tonkin. In Sudan, in 1892, he supervised work on the railway from Kayes to Niger. Coming to the aid of the Bonnier column, massacred near Timbuktu in 1894, he seized the town, restored order and organized French rule. In Madagascar, he established the defenses of Diégo-Suarez and was appointed Brigadier General in 1901. Joffre's colonial career was over. Returning to France, he took on a number of high-level commands, becoming head of the French Army within 10 years. Director of Engineering, Commander of an Infantry Division, then of an Army Corps, he was a member of the Conseil Supérieur de la Guerre in 1910 and Chief of the General Staff of the Army in 1911. On August 2, 1914, Germany declared war on France, and General Joffre took charge of operations as Commander-in-Chief of the Northern and North-Eastern Armies. The invasion of Belgium forced him to modify his plan and shift his main effort northwards, but the French armies were forced to withdraw in the face of vastly superior forces. Joffre, gifted with uncommon self-control and strength of character, ordered the retreat and conceived the ingenious maneuver of resuming the offensive. This maneuver was admirably executed by both leaders and troops, and led to the famous victory of the Marne. The title of "victor of the Marne" adorned Joffre's name with immortal glory. From then on, the character of war changed, with continuous lines of trenches separating opposing armies. Joffre waged an active war of attrition. These were the offensives of Artois and Champagne in 1914 and 1915. During the Battle of Verdun, which absorbed all the French Army's vital forces, he gave his second-in-command, General Pétain, the means of victory, and launched the Somme offensive in July 1916, which relieved the citadel front. On December 26, 1916, Joffre receives the baton of Marshal of France. Marshal Joffre hands over command-in-chief to General Nivelle. After the war, he undertook diplomatic missions in America and Japan, and was elected to the Académie Française. He died in 1931 and is buried at his estate in Louveciennes, near Paris. Few army chiefs in our history have held France's destiny in their hands. Joffre was one of them, and one of the greatest. In the tragic hours of August and September 1914, he saved his country. (text repri

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Fri 26 Apr

HÉLOUIS, Édouard Les royal-diners. A gourmet's guide containing menus for every season. With instructions on how to prepare them and advice on table service. Decorated with twenty-four colored plates. Paris Ch. Noblet, E. Dentu 1878 In-8°; 24 h.-t. (russ. in 1st part). Contemporary black half-chagrin, same color percaline boards, gilt ribbed spine (slightly rubbed). Rare single edition of this collection of recipes "to guide, in the choice, seasoning and arrangement of dishes, rich financiers, aristocratic hotels, even the offices of sovereigns" (Foreword): barley brillantée à la reine, tapioca à l'impératrice, chicken fillets à la Marie-Thérèse, salmon à la royale, brioche à l'ambassadrice, noix de veau à la Victor-Emmanuel, etc. (Foreword). pp. 343-485 contain 235 examples of menus (served at the homes of kings Louis-Philippe and Victor-Emmanuel, the Empress of Russia, Prince Napoleon's wedding...). Illustrated with 24 color plates of utensils and dishes. Hélouis was head chef to kings Charles-Albert and Victor-Emmanuel. Ref. Vicaire 441 - Bitting 223 - Oberlé, Fastes, 242 ("very sought-after"). Prov. Dessolier (ms. mention). - Jules Dupont, Paris (stamp). Joint, first edition: 1. Grandi, Ferdinando - Les nouveautés de la gastronomie princière [...]. Paris, Audot, Libr. gastronomique, 1866. In-8° (russ.). Paperback (worn). Written "pour mes confrères de la haute cuisine" (p. 8): potage à la Démidoff (Grandi was his chef de cuisine), friture des millionnaires, petit vols-au-vent à l'Abd-el-Kader, gigot de mouton à la Jean-Jacques Rousseau, etc. Illustrated with 7 plates. - 2 Recettes inédites des Chevet, traiteurs au Palais Royal (Paris), Bibliophiles et Graveurs d'Aujourd'hui, 1968 (1969). In-8°. In ff. covers, dust jacket and slipcase. Ill. with 11 original aquatints in color by Antonini (5 full pp. and 6 in texto). Edition of 150 numbered copies on Rives vellum + 8 suites on Auvergne (no. 37 signed by the artist). (3 vols.)

Estim. 500 - 600 EUR
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