FASHION PORTRAITS - REIGN OF LOUIS XIV - Lot 6

FASHION PORTRAITS - REIGN OF LOUIS XIV "L'exactitude de la mode ... l'élégance du dessein jointe à un certain air de Noblesse". Mercure galant, September 1693 "The personal reign of Louis XIV saw the appearance of a new type of image, produced in Paris around rue Saint-Jacques, devoted to fashion and emphasizing its favorably distinctive power. Hundreds of plates were produced in the same format, with a clear layout, generally presenting a single full-length figure, body and face in three-quarter view, so as to maximize the view of its clothing. These images showcased clothes, a way of life, as much as a general phenomenon - that of "la Mode", reputed to have accelerated since the early 17th century and to have enabled France to dominate the world, under the impetus of the greatest monarch of all time." CUGY (Pascale) European variations on Parisian fashion engravings. Trade, copies and adaptations of clothing images under the reign of the Sun King. In Revue d'Histoire de l'Art de l'Académie de France à Rome, 2016. Robert BONNART (1652-1733), Antoine TROUVAIN (1652-1708), Peter SCHENK (1660-1711), by or after: Portraits de la Cour : Madame la Marquise de Florensac - Madame la Duchesse de la Feuillade - Mademoiselle de Loube, fille d'honneur de Madame, en habit de chasse - Madame la Duchesse de Foix - Mesdemoiselles Loison - Madame la Duchesse de Bouillon, en déshabillé négligé sur un sopha - Madame la Duchesse de Bouillon (x 2) - Madame la Duchesse de Valentinois en habit de bal - Madame la Comtesse de Roure, in ball dress - Madame la Duchesse du Lude - Madame la Princesse de Conty douarière - Madame la Duchesse de Savoye - Madame la Duchesse de St Simon, fille de Monsieur le Maréchal de Lorge - Madame de Ludre in stenkerke and falbala - Portrait de la Marquise d'Angeau à sa toilette - Madame la Duchesse de Ventadour - Mademoiselle de Lislebonne, sister of Madame la Princesse d'Espinois - Madame la Duchesse de Lausun - Madame la Marquise d'Antin - Madame la Duchesse d'Aumont, en déshabillé - Madame la Comtesse d'Ayen - Madame la Marquise d'Estrades - Madame la Marquise de Seignelay - Madame la Princesse d'Espinoy - Margueritte de Lorraine, daughter of Louis de Lorraine Comte - Mademoiselle de Pons - Madame la Marquise de Montespan - Madame la Duchesse de Roquelaure - Madame de Montespan - Catherine de Neville Comtesse d'Armagnanc - Madame la Princesse de Soubise - Madame de Maintenon (x 2) Beautiful and rare collection of 35 black engravings, one of them enhanced with color, published in the late 17th - early 18th centuries. Each plate: Approx. H_30 cm - W_20 cm Presented in ten oak frames underlined with gold fillet by Maison E. Gruel, Doreur, 101 rue du Bac, Paris. The views: 30 x 105 cm; 34 x 89 cm; 30 x 89 cm; 30 x 83 cm; 30 x 76 cm (foxing; mounted on paper) Provenance: Norman castle, former collection of the Marquis de R.