Gift ideas: Original Artworks

Photographic portrait of Eugène Delacroix

Original photograph on albumen paper, in carte de visite format, mounted on a board. Some small foxing.

Rare copy of this photograph, only found at Carnavalet, Louvre and Orsay museums.

Original photograph of the first edition of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary dressed in a signed binding on a library background.
Printed on Premium Luster 270 g, laminated on Dibond (aluminum).
Hanging system on reverse.

Certificate of authenticity provided by Librairie Le Feu Follet.

Photo credits @Librairie Le Feu Follet. All rights reserved.

Ink and watercolour portrait of the poet Paul Verlaine by his friend Marie Crance, bearing the artist's signature and the handwritten caption “Paul Verlaine à l'hôpital”.

A single sheet, presented in a frame with a mount. An inscription on the back of the frame—“written in the margin (by the framer): ‘For Messrs. Thénot and Lercey, 25 April 1894’”—provides a likely terminus post quem for the drawing.
 
Marie Crance (1860–1945), nicknamed Marie-aux-fleurs, was at the time the companion of the illustrator Frédéric-Auguste Cazals, whom she married in 1912. A laundress, maid, and occasional singer in the poet’s favourite

First edition of this aquatint, printed on laid paper with wide margins. Félicien Rops' characteristic signature is present below the plate in red.
Plate mark dimensions: 18.7x13.9cm. Sheet dimensions: 46x35.2cm
Tense face of a young professor bound by the tongue to the lower body of another figure with strong legs and arms. The latter is visible only from behind and seems to be breaking free from the grip of two strange tentacles emerging from the bulb from which the professor's head protrudes. These surround the main action and create an impression of movement.
Fourteen busts of highly expressive figures, all different from one another, form a circle around t

Original ink drawing, signed E. Devéria in the lower right.
Portrait of a young man in formal attire, holding a handkerchief in his left hand.
Eugène Devéria (1805–1865) was one of the major painters of the Romantic movement alongside Eugène Delacroix. From the start, his submissions to the Salon attracted notice, culminating in 1827 with la Naissance de Henri IV [The Birth of Henry IV], which enjoyed considerable success. He continued to depict historical scenes, notably Puget presenting his Milon of Crotone to Louis XIV

Les Maîtres de l'Affiche – imprimerie Chaix | Paris 1896 | plate: 29 x 39.9 cm | frame: 38 x4 3.5 cm | framed lithograph poster on vélin fin paper

NB: The poster is sold framed, but would have to be shipped without the frame.

Recto verso fragments of a manuscript book of hours on parchment with sumptuously illuminated full-page borders. This compartmentalized division of ornaments is representative of the production from Rouen and Parisian workshops at the turn of the 16th century.

Two illuminated pages on a recto verso leaf: border divided into bands and lozenges decorated with floral motifs and leafy designs, gilt initials painted in alternating red and blue and rubrics.
The richness of the illumination characterizes these liturgical books intended for laypeople. Books of hours were at the time jewels of piety, both an instrument of religious practice and a social stat

Extremely rare original medallion photograph on albumen paper, carte de visite format, mounted on a card from Anatole Pougnet’s Paris studio. Manuscript annotations on the verso. No other copy of this photograph has been traced in international public collections.

Photographic portrait of Eugène Delacroix

Original photograph on albumin paper, in a visiting-card format, laid down on card. Foxing.
Very rare copy of this photograph, only found at Carnavalet, Louvre and Orsay museums.