WORKS AND PUBLICATIONS. 363 Mémoires, Documens, Remarques, Extraits et Notes Instructives, recueillis par la Chevalière D'Eon, pour servir à la Vie du Comte de Vauban né le 12 Mai 1633, mort Maréchal de France, à Paris, le 30 Mars 1707, âgé de 74 ans. La chevalière D'Eon s'est occupée long-tems de ce grand Travail; mais ses anciennes Occupations militaires, politiques et littéraires, sans compter les querelles d'Allemans et la guerre civile et incivile qu'elle a soutenue pendant des longues années en Angleterre, ont consommé et consumé ses plus belles années. Après 36 ans de Travaux militaires et politiques, elle ne se trouve pas assez riche, et elle est trop vieille aujourd'hui, pour entreprendre et finir un Ouvrage aussi savant et aussi considérable etc. etc. etc. APPENDIX. THEY who have seen the face of the eiserne jungfrau in the dread dungeon of the Inquisition at Nuremberg, even though by the lurid light of the keeper's candle-stuffs, will experience little difficulty in figuring to themselves the habitual expression of the Chevalier D'Eon's features, where every sentiment implanted by nature and conveyed in the open face, intelligent eyes, and well-shaped nose, was subjugated by the agitated spirit of sarcasm and disdain that kept rippling, as it were, out of the spacious brow, and overspreading the otherwise attractive countenance. In the various portraits herewith described, the Chevalier or Chevalière D'Eon is represented in female attire except in those marked *. 1. Angelica Kauffmann after Latour. Francis Haward, R.A.,sculpsit (mezzo-tinto) published (by the engraver), January 18, 1788, from the picture in the collection of George Keate, Esq. Carola Genovefa Louisa Augusta Andrea Timothea D'Eon de Beaumont, Knight of the Royal and Military Order of St. Louis, Captain of Dragoons and the Volunteers of the Army, Aide-de-Camp to the Maréchal Duke and Count de Broglio, Minister Plenipotentiary from the King of France to the King of Great Britain in 1763. Born at Tonnerre, October 5, 1728. Painted in her twenty-fifth year. (See p. 14, from a photograph by C. Prætorius.) To represent D'Eon de Beaumont as a Chevalière of the Royal and Military Order of Saint Louis at the age of twentyfive, is an anomaly. The cross in this picture may have been introduced by Angelica Kauffmann' when she copied La Tour's portrait, or it may have been added many years after its execution, by La Tour himself, before Angelica Kauffmann saw it. 1 Angelica Kauffmann was for a long time a neighbour of the Chevalier, her residence being in Golden Square. His biographer gives authority for such a conjecture where he says: Towards the close of his life, the mind of this artist. began to give way. He vitiated a large number of his works. by retracing them, under the pretext that in a portrait everything should be sacrificed to the head.' 2. *Mackenzie sc. LE CHEVALIER D'EON (beardless). 3. Printed for S. Hooper, 25 Ludgate Hill, 25 January, 1771 (mezzo-tinto, full length). The Discovery or Female Free-mason. Lady Charles Louis Cezar Augustus Alexander Timotheus D'Eon de Beaumont (here follow style and titles) and accepted free-mason at the lodge of Immor. tality at the Crown and Anchor' in the Strand. 4. *Huquier, pinxt; Burke, fect. Published as the Act directs, August 7, 1771, by I. Wesson. THE CHEVALIER D'EON. (See p. 208, from a photograph by C. Prætorius.) 5. Published as the Act directs by S. Hooper, Ludgate Hill, 20 March, 1778 (mezzotinto). Represented as Minerva, with lance and shield, upon the latter this legend: At nunc dura dedit vobis discrimina Pallas. On one side Impavidam ferient ruinæ. A long inscription in English, concludes: Læsæ sed invicta Palladi, per bella, per acta publica in patriæ suæ honorem et famam inclytæ, cujus virtutes nec inimici vituperare, pauci homines imitari possunt. Exul mi Deone, ne quidem ossa patria habeat! In perpetuum amoris monumentum offerebant amici sociales milites. 6. Dessiné et Gravé par J. B. Bradel d'après nature et les Originaux communiqués par Mademoiselle D'Eon à ce Seul Artiste. Charlotte Geneviève Louise Auguste Andrée Timothée D'Eon de Beaumont (here follow style and titles) Ætatis 35.1 A la Mémoire des Héroines Françoises, Jeanne D'Arc, Jeanne Hachette, etc. etc. 7. Frontispiece to La Vie Militaire, Politique et Privée de Mademoiselle D'Eon de Beaumont, etc.': by de la Fortelle, 1779. LA CHEVALIÈRE D'EON DE BEAUMONT, Née en 1728. 8. A. Stöttrup sc. 1779. Same as 7. 9. Painting in oils, life size. CHEVALIER D'EON, 1782. (See Frontispiece, from a photograph by Arthur King.) In a short biographical notice of the Chevalier D'Eon, dated 1812 (?), at the back of this canvas, allusion being made to the trial on sex policies, it is asserted-Sir Joshua Reynolds was in Court during the trial and requested the Chevalier to pay him a visit, which he did in female attire on 4 August, 1777, 1 This is an error. Bradel was born in 1750. when this Sketch was taken of the Chevalier by Sir Joshua, and presented by him in 1782 to his friend Sir Wm. Chambers.' 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-GenevièveLouis-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. Læs sed invicta 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 SaintGeorge, 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 Ton nerre, le 8 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 à 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, Pax est foeminei generis, dat foemina pacem; Quæ Bellona fuit nunc Dea pacis erit. |