Lot n° 17
Estimation :
3000 - 5000
EUR
FRENCH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1650
ROGER DE LORRAINE,... - Lot 17 - Castor Hara
FRENCH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1650
ROGER DE LORRAINE, KNIGHT OF GUISE
FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF THE GRANDE-MADEMOISELLE AND THEN OF KING LOUIS-PHILIPPE AT THE CHÂTEAU D'EU
Figurated as Hercules and in three-quarter bust on the left.
This is the only known painted portrait, to this day, of the Chevalier de Guise, Roger de Lorraine, who brought the famous Lully from Italy to the French court and was the favourite uncle of the Grande Mademoiselle, who mentions him in her Memoirs at the time of his death.
Oil on oval canvas of the XVIIth century marouflaged, between 1821 and 1848, on a rectangular canvas, at the time of Louis-Philippe duke of Orleans then king of the French.
65 x 55 cm
Stencilled inscriptions on the canvas on the back: CM for Collection Montpensier (Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans duchesse de Montpensier (1627-1693) known as "La Grande Mademoiselle") and : Roger de Lorraine / Chevalier de Guise, last son of Charles de Lorraine, Duke of Guise and Joyeuse and Henriette-Catherine Duchess of Joyeuse, Montpensier and Guise / Born March 21, 1624 / Died in Cambrai September 6, 1653.
Gilded wooden frame with cartel bearing the inscription: Roger de Lorraine / Chevalier de Guise / 1624-1653.
Provenance:
Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans (1627-1693), known as "La Grande Mademoiselle", Duchess of Montpensier and cousin of King Louis XIV.
Louis-Auguste de Bourbon (1670-1736), Duke of Maine, legitimate son of King Louis XIV and heir to La Grande Mademoiselle.
His son, Louis-Auguste de Bourbon (1700-1755), Prince of Dombes.
His brother, Louis-Charles de Bourbon (1701-1775), Count of Eu.
His first cousin, Louis-Jean-Marie de Bourbon (1725-1793), Duke of Penthièvre.
His daughter, Louis-Marie-Adélaide de Bourbon-Penthièvre (1753-1821), duchess of Orléans.
His son, Louis-Philippe d'Orléans (1773-1850), Duke of Orléans and later King of the French.
His son, Louis d'Orléans (1814-1896), Duke of Nemours.
His son, Ferdinand d'Orléans (1844-1910), Duke of Alençon.
Then by descent.
3 000 / 5 000 €
Lot visible and to be collected from the expert (4 rue de la paix)
Roger de Lorraine (1624-1653), knight of Guise, was a member of the House of Guise, the younger and French branch of the House of Lorraine. As such, the French court gave him the honours due to members of the ruling Houses. The youngest son of Charles I of Lorraine, Duke of Guise, Count of Eu, and Henriette-Catherine de Joyeuse, Lady of Joinville, he spent several years of his childhood in Florence, after his father was exiled there by Cardinal Richelieu in 1631. The Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Christine of Lorraine, daughter of Duke Charles III of Lorraine and Claude of France, was a relative of his. At a very young age, he was made a knight of Malta. In 1644, he served at the siege of Gravelines. In March 1646, while staying in Tuscany on his way to Malta, he brought Jean-Baptiste Lully back to Paris to his niece, Mademoiselle de Montpensier, known as "La Grande Mademoiselle". On September 10, 1649, the command of the abbey of Eu was given to Charles-Maurice Le Tellier, Louvois' brother, but Roger de Lorraine, asked for it the next day and made a big noise to Cardinal Mazarin, who had promised it to him, forcing Le Tellier to resign while he had not yet taken possession of it. Then on bad terms with Mazarin, he left to serve his cousin, Duke Charles IV of Lorraine, who entrusted him with the command of his troops during the 1653 campaign.
Unfortunately, he died at the siege of Cambrai on 6 September 1653, in his thirtieth year, and was buried in the collegiate church of Saint Laurent de Joinville.
The castle of Eu and its collection of historical portraits of the House of Guise:
In the 17th century, after the death of Catherine de Clèves (+1633), the county of Eu fell to the de Joyeuse family. In 1656, upon the death of Henriette Catherine de Joyeuse (1585-1656), it was her granddaughter, Anne Marie Louise d'Orleans (1627-1693), Duchess of Montpensier, known as "La Grande Mademoiselle" and daughter of the famous Gaston d'Orleans (1608-1660), who inherited the county of Eu and its castle. The latter having participated in the Fronde against her royal cousin, Louis XIV, she was exiled from the French Court and it is in Eu, in Normandy, that she took refuge after leaving the castle of Saint Germain. The Princess loved the castle of Eu immediately and stayed there frequently during her years of exile, receiving her lover the
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