BORDEAUX (Henri de Bourbon, duke of). 3 original... - Lot 1 - Osenat

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BORDEAUX (Henri de Bourbon, duke of). 3 original... - Lot 1 - Osenat
BORDEAUX (Henri de Bourbon, duke of). 3 original drawings of which one signed "Henri ". 1827-1829. Sanguine, on sheets of paper (one in-4, and 2 in-8 oblong,). CHARMING CHILDHOOD COMPOSITIONS OF THE FUTURE CROWNLESS KING: landscape with trees (February 12, 1827), self-portrait in bust of Janus with landscape with trees (with autograph dispatch: "for Ri February 24, 1827, Henri"), ship with sailors on deck and in the yards (captioned "sailors' party on equator", June 11, 1829). TWO OF THE DRAWINGS BENEFIT FROM AN AUTOGRAPHIC APOSTILLE ON THE RECTO FROM THE COUNTESS OF RIVERA, UNDERGOVERNOR OF THE DUKE OF BORDEAUX ("Monseigneur" and the date of the work). Eugenia de Izquierdo de Rivera (1801-1868) had lost her mother at a very young age and was orphaned by the death of her father in 1813. Her father, Eugenio Martín de Izquierdo de Rivera, a distinguished naturalist who corresponded with Buffon and Lacépède, made his fortune in the metallurgical industry and also had a career in diplomacy, as Godoy's agent and later as secretary to Charles IV. The young Eugenia, ruined, but protected by the Marquise de Castellane, was placed in the Parisian convent of the Filles-anglaises where she became a music teacher. Noted for her seriousness and modesty, and although a foreigner, she was later appointed deputy governess of the Duke of Bordeaux, under the authority of the current governess, the Duchess of Gontaut, and received from Charles X the title of Countess of Rivera. The young child was very fond of her and gave her the nickname of "Ri". She would later marry Auguste Baudon de Mony, who was regent of the Bank of France. GRAND-SON OF CHARLES X AND POSTHUMOUS SON OF THE DEADLY ASSASSINATED DUKE OF BERRY, THE DUKE OF BORDEAUX (1820-1883) was the heir to the Crown. Driven out of France by the July Revolution of 1830, he spent the rest of his life in exile under the title of Count of Chambord: he tried to assert his rights to the French throne at the fall of the Second Empire and seemed to be able to rely on the Royalist Assembly resulting from the elections of 1871, but his extremely conservative ideas in a France that alienated some of his supporters, and he was never able to become HENRI V
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