§ Coat of Arms of great names of History

Coat of Arms of general baron d’Empire Jean-Jacques Desvaux de Saint-Maurice (1775 - 1815).
Paper size: 23 x 31 cm
Composition size: : 23.21 x 18.92 cm

Posthumous creation of the coat of arms of Dr. Ali Akbar SIASSI, Rector of the University of Tehran, Minister of Education and Foreign Affairs under the last two Shahs of Iran.
Dr Siassi was comander of the Order of the Nishane-Elmy, comander of the Order of the Legion d’honneur and of the Palmes academiques.
Mixed technic gouache and watercolour on paper made from rags ’Arches’, cold pressed 300g/m2.
Paper size: 41 x 31cm.
Composition size: 25.7 x 25.2 cm.

Coat of arms of a member of the family Tabacchi (Lombardia, Italy).
Canting Coat of arms of this family of great sculptors recovered from a carved stone (very damaged) from above a porch of their house our house in the village of Rancio Valcuvia.
Mixed technic gouache and watercolour on paper made from rags ’Arches’, cold pressed 300g/m2.
Paper size: 31 x 41 cm
Composition size: : 25.92 x 18.08 cm

Coat of Arms of Germain Hacquet des Naudières, who introduced the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite at the Grand Orient de France (1756-1835).
Paper size: 23 x 31 cm
Composition size: : 18.86 x 19.48 cm

Coat of arms of the prominant French
Navy officer and explorer Jean-François de Galaup de Lapérouse (born in Albi in1741 & vanished inVanikoro (Salomon Islands) around 1788).
After a brillant career of naval officer, the cross of St Louis’s military Order was granted to him on May 24th, 1777, shortly after his return from Mauritius Island where he had been raised to the rank of Lieutenant, on April 4th, 1777. He was appointed commodore by royal patent of November 2nd, 1786 and receives at the same time a title of Count (even this title never was registered by the Parliament).
Mixed technic gouache and watercolour on paper made from rags ’Arches’, cold pressed 300g/m2.
Paper size: 18 x 24 cm
Composition size: 9.03 x 19.46 cm

Coat of arms of Pierre Corneille (1606-1684) major playwright and French poet, (Normandy).
Mixed technic gouache and watercolour on paper made from rags ’Arches’, cold pressed 300g/m2.
Paper size: 22 x 31 cm
Composition size: : 19.57 x 20.23 cm

Coat of arms of a member of the Faulquier family (Franche-Comté, France). Quartered shield with the arms of the noble Franche-Comté families Faulquier, Saulx, Ray et Chauvirey. Coat of arms recovered from a fireplace plate of the early 17th century.
Mixed technic gouache and watercolour on paper made from rags ’Arches’, cold pressed 300g/m2.
Paper size: 22 x 31 cm
Composition size: : 17.68 x 25.94 cm

Coat of arms of Jean-Olivier Lavollée (1775-18..) , Knight of the French Empire and of the l’Ordre de la Réunion, Secretary of Jean-Jacques Régis de Cambacérès, Prince- Arch-Chancellor of the Empire.
Mixed technic gouache and watercolour on paper made from rags ’Arches’, cold pressed
Paper size: 23 x 31 cm
Composition size: : 7.39 x 21.47 cm

Symbols of the reign of Louis XIV (motto, coat of arms, monogram and fleur-de-lis).
A4 offset printing numbered on rag paper and offered to his customers by the Publisher Editions du Gui. http://www.culture-cadeaux.com/
Mixed technic gouache, ink and watercolour on paper made from rags ’Arches’, cold pressed 300g/m2.
Paper size: 23 x 31 cm
Composition size: 20.18 x 27.95 cm

The Auld Alliance
Composition performed during the artist’s workshop of the 27th International Congress of Genealogic and Heraldic Sciences, hold in St Andrews (Scotland) from 21 to 26 August 2006. The general theme was Myth and propaganda in heraldry and genealogy.
The Auld alliance between Scotland and France was signed in Paris the 23rd October 1295 the king of France, Philippe IV and the king of Scotland, John Balliol. This military treaty was drawn up to avoid England’s aggressive expansion plans towards his neighbours. It also brought a solid friendship between the two peoples and favoured commercial relationships.
This rendition is in honour of the Auld alliance during the reigns of James II of Scotland (1430-1437-1460) and Charles VII of France (1403-1422-1461).
Supporters, banners and war cries are these of the two realms. On the terrace, there is a semy of Scottish thistles and French lilies.
I have chosen this historic context according to the particular theme of the artist’s workshop that was: ’Mythological Beasts: The Heraldic Monsterpiece’.
Mixed technic gouache and watercolour on paper made from rags ’Arches’, cold pressed 300g/m2.
Paper size: 36 x 50 cm
Composition size: 30.29 x 38.52 cm

Tribute to the memory of Claus Philip Maria Schenk count von Stauffenberg, man of honor and faith, which participated in the attempt against Hitler, on July 20th, 1944 within the framework of the plan ’ Walkyrie ’ intended to knock down the Nazi regime. Family of the prominent nobility of Würtemberg (Germany).
Mixed technic gouache and watercolour on paper made from rags ’Arches’, cold pressed 300g/m2.
Paper size: 26 x 37 cm
Composition size: 17.64 x 28.48 cm

Armorial bearings of the Ducs of Brittany.
In crest and in support there is the lion’s tail forked arises from the primitive coat of arms of the house of Montfort, the last race of the Breton dynasty.
Mixed technic gouache and watercolour on paper made from rags ’Arches’, cold pressed 300g/m2.
Paper size: 23 x 31 cm
Composition size: 17.60 x 24.16 cm

Armorial bearings of the Ducal House of Savoy.
Collar of the Order of Annonciade established in 1364 by Amédée VI Count of Savoy.
Banners from left to right: Savoy and Saint Mauricius (holy patron of the house of Savoy).
Mixed technic gouache and watercolour on paper made from rags ’Arches’, cold pressed 300g/m2.
Paper size: 23 x 31 cm
Composition size: 22.4 x 24.8 cm

Donatien Alphonse François Marquess of Sade (1740-1814).
Writer and playwright (Comtat-Venaissin, France). Augmentation of honour of the armorial bearings of the family by the addition of the imperial eagle made by Sigismond of Luxembourg’s imperial diploma (01/11/1416).
Mixed technic gouache and watercolour on paper made from rags ’Arches’, cold pressed 300g/m2.
Paper size: 23 x 31 cm
Composition size: 20.3 x 22.2 cm

Mixed technic gouache and watercolour on paper made from rags ’Arches’, cold pressed 300g/m2.
Paper size: 23 x 31 cm
Composition size:

The greatest French privateers of the modern aera:
Jean Bart ( 1651-1702).
Native of the Dunkerque, ennobled in 1691 by Louis XIV, Knight of the Order of Saint Louis.
René Duguay-Trouin ( 1672-1736 ).
Native of Saint-Malo, ennobled in 1709 by Louis XIV.
Robert Surcouf ( 1773-1827 ).
Native of Saint-Malo, made Baron of the Empire by Napoleon I.
The white flag was one of the late French kingdom.
Mixed technic gouache and watercolour on paper made from rags ’Arches’, cold pressed 300g/m2.
Paper size: 23 x 31 cm
Composition size: 25 x 19.6 cm

Jean-Baptiste Bessières’s full rendition of arms as French empire Marshal and duke of Istria (1768 - 1813). Both decorations under the shield are the Legion of honour and the Order of the Iron crown.
Mixed technic gouache and watercolour on paper made from rags ’Arches’, cold pressed 300g/m2.
Paper size: 23 x 31 cm
Composition size: 16 x 17.5 cm

René Descartes (1596-1650).
Lord of du Perron. Soldier, mathematician and philosopher, native from La Haye in Touraine (today Descartes).
Mixed technic gouache and watercolour on paper made from rags ’Arches’, cold pressed 300g/m2.
Paper size: 23 x 31 cm
Composition size: 11.2 x 15.6 cm

Jacques Auguste de Thou ( 1553-1617 ).
Historian and president of the parliament of Paris. Family native of the region of Orléans (France). Canting arms: horseflies in French = ‘taon’ = Thou).
Mixed technic gouache and watercolour on paper made from rags ’Arches’, cold pressed 300g/m2.
Paper size: 23 x 31 cm
Composition size: 16 x18.3 cm

Philippe de La Clyte de Commynes (1447 - 1511).
Historiographer of Louis XI, knight of the Order of Saint Michael in 1478, native of Flanders.
Mixed technic gouache and watercolour on paper made from rags ’Arches’, cold pressed 300g/m2.
Paper size: 23 x 31 cm
Composition size: 20 x 21 cm

Coat of arms of Joachim du Bellay (on 1522 - 1560), poet native of Poitou. Co-foundator with Pierre de Ronsard of the group and poetic movement " the Pleiad " which promotes the use and the enrichment of the French language. _ Mixed technic gouache and watercolour on paper made from rags ’Arches’, cold pressed 300g/m2.
Paper size: 23 x 31 cm
Composition size: 12.8 x 15.3 cm

Equestrian portrait of Joan of Arc (1412 - 1431). Freely inspired by the equestrian portraits of Armorial of the Golden fleece (first half of the XVth century).
Mixed technic gouache and watercolour on paper made from rags ’Arches’, cold pressed 300g/m2.
Paper size: 26 x 36 cm
Composition size: 22 x 27 cm

Full rendition of arms of Humbert II, last Dauphin of Viennese (1333-1349-1355). Luxurious, ruined prince, widower and without offspring (his only son died when he was a child), he sold Dauphiné to the king of France Philippe VI in 1349 with special conditions of privileges for the inhabitants of his principality. He asked too that the elder sons of the kings of France resume Dauphin’s title and that Dauphiné becomes henceforth their personnal feodal possession.
Mixed technic Indian ink, gouache and watercolour on paper made from rags ’Arches’, cold pressed 300g/m2.
Paper size: 31 x 41 cm
Composition size: 22 x 22 cm