CLÉMENTINE, princesse d'Orléans (1817-1907)

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CLÉMENTINE, princesse d'Orléans (1817-1907)
Large sketchbook belonging to the princess, containing around 88 drawings and graphite studies produced around 1830-1831 by King Louis-Philippe's youngest daughter, then in her teens. These include portraits of Dürer, Machiavelli, Rabelais, Jacques Auguste de Thou, Eleonora of Toledo, Montaigne, Luther, scenes from the Romance of the Cid, Pope Pius V, Giovanni della Robbia's Nativity, Judith by Cristofano Allori, Raphael's Madonna of the Chair, works from the Palazzo Pitti collection, and more. Attached is a second large sketchbook belonging to the princess, containing around 66 drawings and graphite studies made by her around 1832. Including Dürer's Three Wise Men, the Virgin Mary, the Knight, Death and the Devil, La Belle Jardinière, Anne de Clèves, the three children of King Charles I of Great Britain, several Raphael covers, etc. Half-bound, blue and green leather spine and corners, Italian in-folio format (330x430 mm), one signed Alphonse Giroux in Paris. Works by Princess Clementine are rare. Some are in private collections and in The British Royal Collection Trust belonging to the King of Great Britain. These include a historical scene depicting the Elector of Saxony as prisoner of Emperor Charles V (RCIN 922926). History: most of these works are revivals of Old Master paintings, and many are her own compositions, drawn under the direction of her painting master, the famous Ary Scheffer (1795-1858), when she was 13-14 years old, just as her father Louis-Philippe was ascending the French throne. Here we see that the princess copied Dürer, Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Holbein and Titian. These are her earliest known works, showing the remarkable talent she developed under the guidance of Ary Scheffer. Some of the figures she drew resemble those in the drawings of her sister, Princess Marie, future Duchess of Württemberg, suggesting that they attended the same drawing classes together. Provenance: preserved and then offered for sale by the InLibris Gilhofer bookshop in Vienna, which was responsible for inventorying the princess's archives in 1920. This famous firm was founded in 1883. An attestation from this establishment, dated 1997, certifies that these two albums did indeed belong to Princess Clémentine d'Orléans, and that all the drawings are by the Princess.
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