‎Philippe de MONTJOUVENT‎
‎Les BEAUHARNAIS‎

‎L'Hotel Beauharnais. Palais de l'Ambassade d'Allemagne a Paris‎

‎L'Hotel Beauharnais. Palais de l'Ambassade d'Allemagne a Paris. Paris: Edition Albert Morance, Librairie centrale d'art et d'architecture, ancienne Maison Morel, ca1910. 20 pages, with 80 b&w plates, numerous b&w illustrations and floor plans. Hardback. 45x35.5cms. Published by the Librairie centrale d'art et d'architecture (the renown French publishing house specialized in art and architecture), this large size book illustrates in detail the interior decorations of the Hotel Beauharnais. Alongside a detailed history of the building and the various ownership changes it underwent over two centuries, the publication offers bountiful detailed illustrations of furniture, marble floors, bronzes, ormolu clocks and candlesticks, stucco panelings, mantelpieces, ceiling paintings. Built in the early 18th Century, the mansion was looted during the French revolution. It was later purchased by EugÚne Rose de Beauharnais, Duke of Leuchtenberg, Viceroy of Italy, stepson and adopted child of Napoleon I. Beauharnais had it rebuilt and its interiors redecorated in the coeve Empire style, of which the building offers a remarkably beautiful example: from the landscapes by Hubert Robert and the mantelpiece of antique green marble embellished with gilt bronze featured in the Green drawing room; to the the pink reception room, famous for its Italian mosaics; from the severe throne room, to the Four Seasons drawing room, whose homonymous paintings were attributed to Prudhon in the past but are believed today to be by Girodet. After the Congress of Vienna, the building was sold to Prussia, and became residence of the Prussian legation on French territory. Following the Franco-Prussian War, it served as embassy of the German Empire in France.Provenance: Millicent Rogers, New York and Taos. Thence by descent. Text in French.‎

‎Published by the Librairie centrale d'art et d'architecture (the renown French publishing house specialized in art and architecture), this large size book illustrates in detail the interior decorations of the Hotel Beauharnais. Alongside a detailed history of the building and the various ownership changes it underwent over two centuries, the publication offers bountiful detailed illustrations of furniture, marble floors, bronzes, ormolu clocks and candlesticks, stucco panelings, mantelpieces, ceiling paintings. Built in the early 18th Century, the mansion was looted during the French revolution. It was later purchased by EugÚne Rose de Beauharnais, Duke of Leuchtenberg, Viceroy of Italy, stepson and adopted child of Napoleon I. Beauharnais had it rebuilt and its interiors redecorated in the coeve Empire style, of which the building offers a remarkably beautiful example: from the landscapes by Hubert Robert and the mantelpiece of antique green marble embellished with gilt bronze featured in the Green drawing room; to the the pink reception room, famous for its Italian mosaics; from the severe throne room, to the Four Seasons drawing room, whose homonymous paintings were attributed to Prudhon in the past but are believed today to be by Girodet. After the Congress of Vienna, the building was sold to Prussia, and became residence of the Prussian legation on French territory. Following the Franco-Prussian War, it served as embassy of the German Empire in France.Provenance: Millicent Rogers, New York and Taos. Thence by descent. Text in French‎

‎Née à Paris. 1737-1813. Femme de lettres française. Épouse de Claude de Beauharnais, oncle du premier mari de Joséphine. P.A.S. « Mouchard de Beauharnais ». Paris, 3 juin 1791. 1/2 page petit in-8 oblong.‎

‎ 31/06/1791 Fanny de Beauharnais reconnaît …devoir à Mr. Le marquis de Turbilly la somme de quarante louis…Louis de Menon, marquis de Turbilly (1717-1776). Après une carrière militaire, il se retire dans ses terres et devient agronome. On lui doit létablissement de Sociétés dagriculture.‎

‎Le PRINCE Eugène Beauharnais.‎

‎À Paris, chez Marel, s.d. (1820) , 28 x 19,7 cm à la cuvette, une feuille. Infimes rousseurs.‎

‎Portrait en buste d'Eugène de Beauharnais.Gravure à l'eau-forte et au pointillé. - - VENTE PAR CORRESPONDANCE UNIQUEMENT‎

‎L'Hôtel de Beauharnais. La résidence de l'Ambassadeur d'Allemagne à Paris.‎

‎ Stuttgart, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1968, in-8°, 84 pp, 26 portraits etr photos, reliure toile éditeur, jaquette illustrée, bon état‎

‎L’hôtel de Beauharnais, situé 78 rue de Lille, dans le 7e arrondissement, conserve les plus beaux décors parisiens de style Consulat et Empire. A la chute de l’Empire, le roi de Prusse, Frédéric-Guillaume III, réquisitionne l’hôtel puis l’achète à Eugène de Beauharnais en 1818. En 1862, Bismarck, alors ambassadeur de Prusse en France, y réside. En 1867, lors de l’Exposition universelle, le roi de Prusse Guillaume 1er y reçoit Napoléon III et l’impératrice Eugénie. Depuis 1968, l’hôtel de Beauharnais est la résidence de l’ambassadeur d’Allemagne à Paris. ‎

‎Léandre et Hero - Poème en trois chants, Imité du Grec de Musée, par M. de GOURNAND, SUIVI de pièces fugitives et fragments de sciences et littératures par Madame de BEAUHARNAIS, et Messieurs de LILLE, PIIS & SAUVIGNY‎

‎ PARIS, Chez Guyon, Maison & Gervais - 1806 - In-16 - Reliure plein veau de l'époque - Dos lisse orné - Pièce de titre en maroquin rouge - signet - Frontispice, Fanny de Beauharnais - 216 pages. - bon exemplaire - Ex-libris Césare Vignoli - Envoi rapide et soigné ‎

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