The strange career of the Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont : $b Minister plenipotentiary from France to Great Britain in 1763Telfer, J. Buchan (John Buchan)
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The strange career of the Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont : $b Minister plenipotentiary from France to Great Britain in 1763
Telfer, J. Buchan (John Buchan)
Eon de Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d', 1728-1810; France -- Foreign relations -- 1715-1774
According to this statement, the signature to which is indistinct,
the sketch of the Chevalier was taken when in his fiftieth year, and
completed in 1782, the date inscribed by the artist to the left of the
figure, whilst the Chevalière, then in her fifty-sixth year, was residing
in France!
This picture is now the property of General Meredith Read, New York,
U.S.A.
10. Dupin (Pierre?) artist and engraver.
Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-César-André-Timothée D’Eon de Beaumont,
née à Tonnerre, en 1728 (here follow style and titles). A Paris chez
Esnauts et Rapilly.
11. Peint par Ducreux, de l’Académie Impériale et Royale de Vienne. Gravé
par Cathelin, de l’Académie Royale de Peinture et Sculpture à Paris. Læsæ
sed invictæ Palladi. Name, style, and titles close with.... plus célèbre
encore par sa Vertu que par son nom. Pensionnaire de Louis XV. et de
Louis XVI. Née à Tonnerre, le 5 8ᵇʳᵉ, 1728, Ætatis 58.
12. Cosway, R.A., 1787. Thos. Chambers sculpsit. Published July 12, 1787.
LA CHEVALIÈRE D’EON.
13. Painted by Robineau. Engraved by V. M. Picot. From a picture of
Robineau’s in the possession of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
Published June 20, 1789, by V. M. Picot. Dedicated by Permission to His
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. The assault or Fencing-Match which
took place between Mademoiselle La Chevalière D’Eon de Beaumont and
Monsieur de Saint-George, on the 9th of April, 1787, at Carlton House,
in the presence of His Royal Highness, several of the Nobility, and many
eminent Fencing Masters of London.
14. J. Condé delin. et sculp. LA CHEVALIÈRE D’EON, née à Tonnerre, le 5
8ᵇʳᵉ, 1728.
15. Published by I. Sewell, March 1, 1791 (for the ‘European Magazine’).
Same as 14.
16. Medallion portrait. Vigil audax—by J. Condé, published June 24, 1791,
upon the occasion of the entertainment given by the Managers of Ranelagh
for the benefit of the Chevalière D’Eon ... deprived of a considerable
part of her fortune by the odious detention of a deposit. Minerve
Gauloise, née a Tonnerre, le 5 8ᵇʳᵉ, 1728. Proprio Marte Tuta. The French
artist who engraved this plate designed it for a monument of English
generosity and French gratitude.
Dic mihi, Virgo ferox, cum sit tibi cassis et hasta,
Quare non habeas Ægida? Cæsar habet.
Pax est fœminei generis, dat fœmina pacem;
Quæ Bellona fuit nunc Dea pacis erit.
17. Dance, R.A., 26 May, 1793. Engraved by William Daniell, August 15,
1810. THE CHEVALIÈRE D’EON. This profile, to the left, was drawn at the
request of Mr. W. Seward, F.R.S.
18. Robert Cooper sculp. Published July 2, 1810, by J. Bell, Southampton
Street, Strand. Engraved for La Belle Assemblée. Same as 14.
19. From a Cast taken after death. Engraved by C. Turner from the Cast
taken May 24, 1810, in the presence of J. C. Carpuc, Esq. and Dr.
Pearson. Published June 29, 1810, by C. Turner. THE CHEVALIER D’EON.
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