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THE CARMONTELLE COLLECTION 143
contained many interesting illuminated manuscripts
now dispersed, and of these the Froissart at
Breslau is amongst the most celebrated. Like
all those that belonged to him, it bears his auto-
graph “ ob de Bourgogne P “ ob ” being an abbre-
viation of the Greek word 6j3aX6s, which means
bat ar di
The drawings of this Sutherland Collection,
especially those belonging to the sixteenth century,
are less important, many of them appearing to
be copies by inferior hands ; those, however, of the
seventeenth century by Quesnel and Dumoustier
are first-rate. Among the portraits in pastel may
be noted likenesses of Madame de Montespan,
Louis XIII, Gaston di Orleans, Louis de Haros,
and an interesting portrait of Watteau designed
by Boucher after an original by Watteau himself.
In 1877 the Due d’Aumale availed himself of
another opportunity of restoring to France a French
collection which had been brought to England,
namely, that of M. Carmontelle, which comprised
no less than 450 coloured sketches for portraits
which date from the year 1757 to the year 1775.
Carmontelle, as tutor to the Due de Chartres,
had plenty of opportunity during his leisure hours
to sketch all the men and women with whom he
came in contact, which he did merely for his own
amusement, without any expectation of payment.
The facility with which he executed these sketches
astonished even Grimm, who remarked upon his
1 Der Breslauer Froissart von Arthur Lindner. (Berlin, 1912.)
contained many interesting illuminated manuscripts
now dispersed, and of these the Froissart at
Breslau is amongst the most celebrated. Like
all those that belonged to him, it bears his auto-
graph “ ob de Bourgogne P “ ob ” being an abbre-
viation of the Greek word 6j3aX6s, which means
bat ar di
The drawings of this Sutherland Collection,
especially those belonging to the sixteenth century,
are less important, many of them appearing to
be copies by inferior hands ; those, however, of the
seventeenth century by Quesnel and Dumoustier
are first-rate. Among the portraits in pastel may
be noted likenesses of Madame de Montespan,
Louis XIII, Gaston di Orleans, Louis de Haros,
and an interesting portrait of Watteau designed
by Boucher after an original by Watteau himself.
In 1877 the Due d’Aumale availed himself of
another opportunity of restoring to France a French
collection which had been brought to England,
namely, that of M. Carmontelle, which comprised
no less than 450 coloured sketches for portraits
which date from the year 1757 to the year 1775.
Carmontelle, as tutor to the Due de Chartres,
had plenty of opportunity during his leisure hours
to sketch all the men and women with whom he
came in contact, which he did merely for his own
amusement, without any expectation of payment.
The facility with which he executed these sketches
astonished even Grimm, who remarked upon his
1 Der Breslauer Froissart von Arthur Lindner. (Berlin, 1912.)