Aaron Martinet (1762-1841) - Lot 59

Aaron Martinet (1762-1841) Important set of 24 preparatory drawings for the illustrations of Histoire des cent-jours de la Restauration et de la Révolution de 1830, by Jacques-Antoine Dulaure (Paris, Poirée, 1845) Pen and brown wash, white gouache 8 x 12 cm, each drawing Assembled in two frames, forming a pair, with fine mounting suggesting attribution to Duplessis-Bertaux. Illustrated: First frame - 1814 - Public girls helping refugees (volume 1) - 1814 - Marie-Louise's departure for Blois (volume 1) - 1814 - Royalists of Orgon and Avignon (vol. 1) - 1815 - Arms landing in the Vendée (vol. 2) - 1815 - General Lamarque in the Vendée (volume 2) - 1815 - Prussians prevent deputies from entering the Palais-Bourbon (volume 2) - 1814 - First royalist excesses (vol. 1) - 1815 - Protestant massacre in Nismes (volume 3) - 1815 - Assassination of Marshal Brune (volume 3) - 1815 - Supplication of General Berton in Poitiers (volume 7) - 1815 - Political assassination of Marshal Ney (not translated into engravings) - 1822 - Supplice des quatre sergents de La Rochelle (tome 7) Second framing - 1815 - Séance Royale du 16 mars (has not been translated into engraving) - 1815 - The Duchess of Angouleme in Bordeaux (vol. 1) - 1815 - Marshal Mac Donald has the white cockade taken (vol. 3) - 1815 - Raucourt convoy - the clergy of St Roch (volume 1) - 1815 - Grenoble insurrection - fighting at Eybens (volume 5) - 1815 - Deputy Manuel's seizure (Volume 7) - 1815 - Napoleon lands at Cannes (volume 1) - 1815 - Napoleon at the gates of Grenoble (volume 1) - 1815 - Ceremony on the Champ de Mai (vol. 2) - 1815 - Napoleon at Waterloo (volume 2) - 1815 - Napoleon in Plimouth (not translated into engravings) - 1821 - Death of Napoleon (has not been translated into engraving) Published posthumously in 1845, *L'Histoire des cent-jours de la Restauration et de la Révolution de 1830* reflects Jacques-Antoine Dulaure's long commitment to republicanism and his near-pathological detestation of monarchical regimes. The work offers a critical reading of the second Restoration, denouncing the alleged abuses, betrayals and political immobilism that led, in his view, to the explosion of 1830. Dulaure adopts an incisive tone, blending historical narrative and political reflection, in the continuity of his militant work, born in the years of the Revolution (of which he was one of the influential Girondine pens). In it, he portrays a people struggling against injustice and authoritarianism. Although marked by the author's highly partisan point of view, the work remains an invaluable testimony to the political upheavals of the first third of the 19th century. It also illustrates Dulaure's abiding interest in popular movements and forms of resistance to established power, as expressed in his highly polemical Histoire physique, civile et morale de Paris (1829).