[Henry de TRIQUETI] Important lot of 62 photographs on albumen paper, some mounted on cardboard. Circa 1860-70. Several are annotated or signed by Henry de Triqueti. Accidents, tears, folds We find: - The Descent from the Cross (Wolsey Chapel, Windsor). - The Marmor Homericum (University College London). 6 copies, 4 different. - Homère à la fontaine Hippocrène (Musée Girodet, Montargis). 3 copies. - Marble Tarsia for the Manor Chapel of Teffont Church (Church of St. Michael and All Angels) 2 examples. - Jeune fille et l'amour (Musée Girodet, Montargis). - Edouard VI, favorite sculpture of Prince Albert (Royal Collection Trust and Musée Girodet, Montargis). 7examples from two different angles. - Hippomenes and Atalanta (Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans). 2 copies. - Gaston Phoebus, project for the city of Pau (Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans). 5 examples of the sculpture complete with staff, including two on a wooden base and three signed Edouard [de Triqueti, the sculptor's son who died in 1861?] - Virgil and Dante (Boston Museum). 3 pieces. - Pieta from the Saint Ferdinand chapel. - Christ from the Dôme des Invalides. Captioned by the author: "Christ de bronze que j'ai fait pour le Dôme des Invalides. 1852" - Recumbent statue of Prince Albert (Wolsey Chapel, Windsor). 5 copies at two different angles. - Plaster of La Miséricorde Divine accueillant le Repentir (catalog no. 13). 4 copies, one of which is captioned by the author: "ET TRANSIT TANTUM MISERA, CUM MISERICORDIA. Saint Augustin". - Clytie expiring in the last rays of the sun (Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans). - The Death of Cleopatra (Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans). 2 copies. - The two angels of the reredos (Wolsey Chapel, Windsor). 2 copies of each. - Pygmalion has just sculpted a young ephebe (Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans). - Le concert d'Anges (variant of lot 82 in the catalog). Photograph by S. Thompson. - Le faune cymbalier (Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans). 2 examples from two different angles. - Une biche arrêtée dans sa course par l'Amour, pediment of the Château de Varennes (Musée Girodet, Montargis). - Jesus as a child and the Mother of Moses embracing her son in a cradle (Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans). 2 copies. - Muse (catalog no. 78) and Edward VI reading the Scriptures (Musée Girodet, Montargis). - Four pilaster projects with biblical subjects (probably for the decoration of Saint Paul's Cathedral, London). - Allegory of music seated in front of a fortified castle, photograph (very faded) of a drawing from the Duc d'Aumale collection (Musée Condé, Chantilly). Attached: a lithograph of the recumbent bed of the Duc d'Orléans, an etching representing one of the sculpted scenes from the doors of the Madeleine dated 1837, a photograph of a marble bas-relief representing Bacchus and Ariadne belonging to the Duc d'Aumale, purchased in 1866 at the Nolivos sale by Henry de Triqueti (Musée Condé, Chantilly) and 4 photographs on albumen paper of various works that probably belonged to Henry de Triqueti. Provenance: Château du Perthuis. Note: Baron Henry de Triqueti was an important figure in the Montargis region, owning three châteaux. Sculptor to the Princes, advisor to the d'Orléans family, interlocutor with Queen Victoria and her eldest daughter "Vicky", he frequented both the British and Prussian Courts. It was to him that the town of Montargis approached the Kronprinz or Royal Prince Frederic-Guillaume or Friedrich Wilhelm, the future Emperor Friedrich III, to obtain a relaxation of the conditions imposed on the region by the occupying armies during the 1870 war (lot 74). Chosen to work on major French and British commissions, he was a member of the advisory commission for imperial museums, author of a book on "the three museums of London", and a benefactor member of the "Société d'émulation de l'arrondissement de Montargis". On his death in 1874, the British press paid tribute to him, and several books were published recalling his merits and the importance of his work (lot 75).