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Auction archive: Lot number 233

LYON 1622 -- Le Soleil au signe du Lyon d'où quelques parall...

Estimate
US$3,000 - US$4,000
Price realised:
US$2,750
Auction archive: Lot number 233

LYON 1622 -- Le Soleil au signe du Lyon d'où quelques parall...

Estimate
US$3,000 - US$4,000
Price realised:
US$2,750
Beschreibung:

LYON 1622 -- Le Soleil au signe du Lyon d'où quelques parallèles sont tirez avec...Louis XIII. Roy de France & Navarre, en son entree triomphante dans sa Ville de Lyon. Ensemble un sommaire récit de tout ce qui s'est passé de remarquable en ladite Entrée de sa Majesté, & de la plus Illustre Princesse de la Terre, Anne d'Austriche, Royne de France & Navarre, dans ladite Ville de Lyon le 11.Décembre 1622 . Lyons: Jean Jullierson, 1623.
LYON 1622 -- Le Soleil au signe du Lyon d'où quelques parallèles sont tirez avec...Louis XIII. Roy de France & Navarre, en son entree triomphante dans sa Ville de Lyon. Ensemble un sommaire récit de tout ce qui s'est passé de remarquable en ladite Entrée de sa Majesté, & de la plus Illustre Princesse de la Terre, Anne d'Austriche, Royne de France & Navarre, dans ladite Ville de Lyon le 11.Décembre 1622 . Lyons: Jean Jullierson, 1623. 2 o (295 x 202mm). Title in red and black with large engraved royal arms by PIERRE FABER and 12 plates engraved (one folding) by FABER, G.AUTGUERS, GRéGOIRE HURET DAVID VAN VELCHEM and PHILIPPE DE MALLERY of triumphal arches and pillars. (Some light browning and pale spotting.) Contemporary vellum. Provenance : Roberto Galliley (early signature on front pastedown). Berlin 2991; Vinet 483 bis ; Watanabe 1773. [ Bound with: ] Réception de... Louys XIII. Roy de France & de Navarre...et de... Anne d'Austriche: par Messieurs les Doyens, Chanoines,& Comtes de Lyon, en leur Cloistre, & Eglise le xi.Decembre M.D.XXII . Lyon: Jacques Roussin, 1623. Large engraved royal arms on title, 7 plates (4 folding), engraved by G. Huret, P. Faber and C. AUDRAN of triumphal arches, fireworks, a float and two emblematic plates of an enormous royal lion. Berlin 2990; Vinet 483; Watanabe 1775. This book describes triumphal entry into Lyons of LOUIS XIII, King of France (1601-1643), and ANNA OF AUSTRIA, Spanish Infanta (1601-1666). The theme of the decorations for the entry was the comparison of the king to the sun. As the sun, the lord of the planets, travels through the realm of the zodiac, so to the king visits the various cities of his kingdom (here Lyon), protected by the sign of Leo. Interestingly, this comparison to the sun would later become amplified and forever associated with his son Louis XIV, the Sun King. The second work has the second state title-page dated 1623 (Watanabe lists an earlier state dated 1622). It describes his reception at the Jesuit College followed by wonderful firework displays depicted in some of the engravings.

Auction archive: Lot number 233
Auction:
Datum:
12 Jun 2009
Auction house:
Christie's
12 June 2009, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

LYON 1622 -- Le Soleil au signe du Lyon d'où quelques parallèles sont tirez avec...Louis XIII. Roy de France & Navarre, en son entree triomphante dans sa Ville de Lyon. Ensemble un sommaire récit de tout ce qui s'est passé de remarquable en ladite Entrée de sa Majesté, & de la plus Illustre Princesse de la Terre, Anne d'Austriche, Royne de France & Navarre, dans ladite Ville de Lyon le 11.Décembre 1622 . Lyons: Jean Jullierson, 1623.
LYON 1622 -- Le Soleil au signe du Lyon d'où quelques parallèles sont tirez avec...Louis XIII. Roy de France & Navarre, en son entree triomphante dans sa Ville de Lyon. Ensemble un sommaire récit de tout ce qui s'est passé de remarquable en ladite Entrée de sa Majesté, & de la plus Illustre Princesse de la Terre, Anne d'Austriche, Royne de France & Navarre, dans ladite Ville de Lyon le 11.Décembre 1622 . Lyons: Jean Jullierson, 1623. 2 o (295 x 202mm). Title in red and black with large engraved royal arms by PIERRE FABER and 12 plates engraved (one folding) by FABER, G.AUTGUERS, GRéGOIRE HURET DAVID VAN VELCHEM and PHILIPPE DE MALLERY of triumphal arches and pillars. (Some light browning and pale spotting.) Contemporary vellum. Provenance : Roberto Galliley (early signature on front pastedown). Berlin 2991; Vinet 483 bis ; Watanabe 1773. [ Bound with: ] Réception de... Louys XIII. Roy de France & de Navarre...et de... Anne d'Austriche: par Messieurs les Doyens, Chanoines,& Comtes de Lyon, en leur Cloistre, & Eglise le xi.Decembre M.D.XXII . Lyon: Jacques Roussin, 1623. Large engraved royal arms on title, 7 plates (4 folding), engraved by G. Huret, P. Faber and C. AUDRAN of triumphal arches, fireworks, a float and two emblematic plates of an enormous royal lion. Berlin 2990; Vinet 483; Watanabe 1775. This book describes triumphal entry into Lyons of LOUIS XIII, King of France (1601-1643), and ANNA OF AUSTRIA, Spanish Infanta (1601-1666). The theme of the decorations for the entry was the comparison of the king to the sun. As the sun, the lord of the planets, travels through the realm of the zodiac, so to the king visits the various cities of his kingdom (here Lyon), protected by the sign of Leo. Interestingly, this comparison to the sun would later become amplified and forever associated with his son Louis XIV, the Sun King. The second work has the second state title-page dated 1623 (Watanabe lists an earlier state dated 1622). It describes his reception at the Jesuit College followed by wonderful firework displays depicted in some of the engravings.

Auction archive: Lot number 233
Auction:
Datum:
12 Jun 2009
Auction house:
Christie's
12 June 2009, New York, Rockefeller Center
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