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James-Alexandre de Pourtalès, the Glossary

James-Alexandre de Pourtalès, Comte de Pourtalès-Gorgier (28 November 1776 – 24 March 1855) was a Swiss-French banker, diplomat and art collector.^[1]

81 relations: Altes Museum, Apollo Belvedere, Archaeology, Arthur de Pourtalès, École polytechnique, Blanche-Joséphine Le Bascle d'Argenteuil, Bois de Boulogne, British Museum, Bronzino, Canton of Neuchâtel, Chamberlain (office), Charles Thomas Newton, Charles-Alexandre, Marquis de Ganay, Château de Châtenay-en-France, Colombier, Neuchâtel, Comte de Pourtalès Collection, Edict of Fontainebleau, Edict of Nantes, English landscape garden, Eugénie de Montijo, Félix Duban, Fief, Frans Hals, Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Frederick William II of Prussia, Frederick William III of Prussia, French landscape garden, Friedrich von Pourtalès, George Keith, 10th Earl Marischal, Gorgier, Goupil & Cie, Grove Art Online, Haulage, Hôtel de Pourtalès, Hôtel particulier, Holy Roman Empire, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, House of Castellane, Huguenots, James Mayer de Rothschild, James Tissot, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Izard Middleton, John Singer Sargent, Lady-in-waiting, Laughing Cavalier, List of French royal consorts, List of monarchs of Prussia, Luins Castle, ... Expand index (31 more) »
People from the Kingdom of Prussia
People from the Principality of Neuchâtel
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Altes Museum

The Altes Museum (English: Old Museum) is a listed building on the Museum Island in the historic centre of Berlin, Germany.

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The Apollo Belvedere (also called the Belvedere Apollo, Apollo of the Belvedere, or Pythian Apollo) is a celebrated marble sculpture from classical antiquity. James-Alexandre de Pourtalès and Apollo Belvedere are Pourtalès Collection.

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Archaeology

Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Arthur de Pourtalès

Arthur de Pourtalès, Count de Pourtalès-Gorgier (31 August 1844 – 1928) was a Swiss-French diplomat. James-Alexandre de Pourtalès and Arthur de Pourtalès are Pourtalès family.

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École polytechnique

(also known as Polytechnique or l'X) is a grande école located in Palaiseau, France.

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Blanche-Joséphine Le Bascle d'Argenteuil

Blanche-Joséphine Le Bascle d'Argenteuil (22 April 1787 – 10 September 1851), by her second marriage duchess of Maillé, was a French lady of letters and memoir writer.

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Bois de Boulogne

The Bois de Boulogne ("Boulogne woodland") is a large public park that is the western half of the 16th arrondissement of Paris, near the suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt and Neuilly-sur-Seine.

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British Museum

The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London.

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Bronzino

Agnolo di Cosimo (17 November 150323 November 1572), usually known as Bronzino (Il Bronzino) or Agnolo Bronzino, was an Italian Mannerist painter from Florence.

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Canton of Neuchâtel

The Republic and Canton of Neuchâtel (République et Canton de Neuchâtel, Kanton Neuenburg; Chantun Neuchâtel; Cantone di Neuchâtel) is a mostly French-speaking canton in western Switzerland.

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Chamberlain (office)

A chamberlain (Medieval Latin: cambellanus or cambrerius, with charge of treasury camerarius) is a senior royal official in charge of managing a royal household.

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Charles Thomas Newton

Sir Charles Thomas Newton (16 September 1816 – 28 November 1894) was a British archaeologist.

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Charles-Alexandre, Marquis de Ganay

Charles-Alexandre de Ganay, 3rd Marquis de Ganay (29 April 1803 – 4 January 1881) was a French aristocrat, diplomat and art collector.

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Château de Châtenay-en-France

The Château de Châtenay is located in Châtenay-en-France, north of Paris. James-Alexandre de Pourtalès and Château de Châtenay-en-France are Pourtalès family.

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Colombier, Neuchâtel

Colombier is a former municipality in the Boudry District in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.

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Comte de Pourtalès Collection

The Art Collection of James-Alexandre, comte de Pourtalès-Gorgier was a collection of sculpture, antiques and paintings owned by James-Alexandre de Pourtalès, Comte de Pourtalès-Gorgier until his death in 1855. James-Alexandre de Pourtalès and comte de Pourtalès Collection are Pourtalès Collection.

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Edict of Fontainebleau

The Edict of Fontainebleau (18 October 1685, published 22 October 1685) was an edict issued by French King Louis XIV and is also known as the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.

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Edict of Nantes

The Edict of Nantes was signed in April 1598 by King Henry IV and granted the minority Calvinist Protestants of France, also known as Huguenots, substantial rights in the nation, which was predominantly Catholic.

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English landscape garden

The English landscape garden, also called English landscape park or simply the English garden (Jardin à l'anglaise, Giardino all'inglese, Englischer Landschaftsgarten, Jardim inglês, Jardín inglés), is a style of "landscape" garden which emerged in England in the early 18th century, and spread across Europe, replacing the more formal, symmetrical French formal garden which had emerged in the 17th century as the principal gardening style of Europe.

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Eugénie de Montijo

Doña María Eugenia Ignacia Agustina de Palafox y Kirkpatrick, 19th Countess of Teba, 16th Marquise of Ardales (5 May 1826 – 11 July 1920), known as Eugénie de Montijo, was Empress of the French from her marriage to Napoleon III on 30 January 1853 until the Emperor was overthrown on 4 September 1870.

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Félix Duban

Jacques Félix Duban (14 October 1798, Paris – 8 October 1870, Bordeaux) was a French architect, the contemporary of Jacques Ignace Hittorff and Henri Labrouste.

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Fief

A fief (feudum) was a central element in medieval contracts based on feudal law.

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Frans Hals

Frans Hals the Elder (– 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

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Franz Xaver Winterhalter

Franz Xaver Winterhalter (20 April 1805 – 8 July 1873) was a German painter and lithographer, known for his flattering portraits of royalty and upper-class society in the mid-19th century.

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Frederick William II of Prussia

Frederick William II (Friedrich Wilhelm II.; 25 September 1744 – 16 November 1797) was king of Prussia from 1786 until his death in 1797.

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Frederick William III of Prussia

Frederick William III (Friedrich Wilhelm III.; 3 August 1770 – 7 June 1840) was King of Prussia from 16 November 1797 until his death in 1840.

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French landscape garden

The French landscape garden (jardin anglais, jardin à l'anglaise, jardin paysager, jardin pittoresque, jardin anglo-chinois) is a style of garden inspired by idealized romantic landscapes and the paintings of Hubert Robert, Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin, European ideas about Chinese gardens, and the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

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Friedrich von Pourtalès

Jakob Ludwig Friedrich Wilhelm Joachim de Pourtalès (24 October 1853 – 3 May 1928) was a German aristocrat and diplomat who served as the Ambassador to the Russian Empire in Saint Petersburg from 1907 to 1914. James-Alexandre de Pourtalès and Friedrich von Pourtalès are Pourtalès family.

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George Keith, 10th Earl Marischal

George Keith, 10th Earl Marischal (1692 or 1693 – 1778) was a Scottish Jacobite army officer and diplomat, who led Jacobite forces in the rising of 1719.

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Gorgier

Gorgier is a former municipality in the district of Boudry in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.

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Goupil & Cie

Goupil & Cie is an international auction house and merchant of contemporary art and collectibles.

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Grove Art Online

Grove Art Online is the online edition of The Dictionary of Art, often referred to as the Grove Dictionary of Art, and part of Oxford Art Online, an internet gateway to online art reference publications of Oxford University Press, which also includes the online version of the Benezit Dictionary of Artists.

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Haulage

Haulage is the business of transporting goods by road or rail between suppliers and large consumer outlets, factories, warehouses, or depots.

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Hôtel de Pourtalès

The Hôtel de Pourtalès is a historic hôtel particulier, a type of large townhouse of France, at 7 rue Tronchet in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. James-Alexandre de Pourtalès and hôtel de Pourtalès are Pourtalès family.

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Hôtel particulier

Hôtel particulier is the French term for a grand urban mansion, comparable to a British townhouse.

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Holy Roman Empire

The Holy Roman Empire, also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed by the Holy Roman Emperor.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) is an American publisher of textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, and reference works.

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House of Castellane

The House of Castellane is a very ancient French noble house originating in Provence and descended from Thibault, count of Arles in the 9th century.

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Huguenots

The Huguenots were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed (Calvinist) tradition of Protestantism.

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James Mayer de Rothschild

Baron James Mayer de Rothschild (born Jakob Mayer Rothschild; 15 May 1792 – 15 November 1868) was a German-French banker and the founder of the French branch of the prominent Rothschild family.

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James Tissot

Jacques Joseph Tissot (15 October 1836 – 8 August 1902), better known as James Tissot, was a French painter, illustrator, and caricaturist.

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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher (philosophe), writer, and composer.

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John Izard Middleton

John Izard Middleton (August 13, 1785 – October 5, 1849) was an American archeologist and artist who was dubbed "the first American Classical Archaeologist" by Charles Eliot Norton.

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John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was an American expatriate artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian-era luxury.

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Lady-in-waiting

A lady-in-waiting (alternatively written lady in waiting) or court lady is a female personal assistant at a court, attending on a royal woman or a high-ranking noblewoman.

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Laughing Cavalier

The Laughing Cavalier (1624) is a portrait by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals in the Wallace Collection in London. James-Alexandre de Pourtalès and Laughing Cavalier are Pourtalès Collection.

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List of French royal consorts

This is a list of the women who were queens or empresses as wives of French monarchs from the 843 Treaty of Verdun, which gave rise to West Francia, until 1870, when the Third Republic was declared.

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List of monarchs of Prussia

The Monarchs of Prussia were members of the House of Hohenzollern who were the hereditary rulers of the former German state of Prussia from its founding in 1525 as the Duchy of Prussia.

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Luins Castle

Luins Castle (also known as the Château de Luins) is a castle in the municipality of Luins of the Canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

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Mélanie de Pourtalès

Mélanie de Pourtalès, Countess Edmond de Pourtalès (née Louise Sophie Mélanie Renouard de Bussière) (26 March 1836 – 5 May 1914) was a French salonnière and courtier. James-Alexandre de Pourtalès and Mélanie de Pourtalès are Pourtalès family.

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Naples

Naples (Napoli; Napule) is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022.

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Napoleon III

Napoleon III (Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 18089 January 1873) was the first president of France from 1848 to 1852, and the last monarch of France as the second Emperor of the French from 1852 until he was deposed on 4 September 1870.

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Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions.

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Neuchâtel

Neuchâtel (Neuenburg) is a town, a municipality, and the capital of the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel on Lake Neuchâtel.

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Newport, Rhode Island

Newport is a seaside city on Aquidneck Island in Rhode Island, United States.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Palézieux

Palézieux is a village and former municipality in the district of Lavaux-Oron in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Place Vendôme

The Place Vendôme, earlier known as the Place Louis-le-Grand, and also as the Place Internationale, is a square in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France, located to the north of the Tuileries Gardens and east of the Église de la Madeleine.

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Rainulphe d'Osmond

Charles Eustache Gabriel (29 July 1788 - October 1862), known as Rainulphe d'Osmond, count then 5th Marquis (1838) of Osmond.

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Rembrandt

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), usually simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman.

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Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford

Captain Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford KG (22 February 1800 – 25 August 1870) was an English aristocrat and sometime politician who spent his life in France devoted to collecting art.

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Rougemont, Switzerland

Rougemont is a municipality in the Pays-d'Enhaut of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

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Rue Tronchet

The Rue Tronchet is a street located in the 6th arrondissement of Lyon, named after French jurist François Denis Tronchet (1726–1804).

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Saint-Cyr-sous-Dourdan

Saint-Cyr-sous-Dourdan (literally Saint-Cyr under Dourdan) is a commune in the Essonne department in Île-de-France in northern France.

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Sandro Botticelli

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi (– May 17, 1510), better known as Sandro Botticelli or simply Botticelli, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance.

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Second French Empire

The Second French Empire, officially the French Empire, was an Imperial Bonapartist regime, ruled by Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (Napoleon III) from 14 January 1852 to 27 October 1870, between the Second and the Third French Republics.

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Seigneur

A seigneur or lord is an originally feudal title in France before the Revolution, in New France and British North America until 1854, and in the Channel Islands to this day.

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Sotheby's

Sotheby's is a British-founded multinational corporation with headquarters in New York City.

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SUNY Press

The State University of New York Press (more commonly referred to as the SUNY Press) is a university press affiliated with the State University of New York system.

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress.

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University of Chicago Press

The University of Chicago Press is the university press of the University of Chicago, a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.

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University of South Carolina Press

The University of South Carolina Press is an academic publisher associated with the University of South Carolina.

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Vaud

Vaud ((Canton de) Vaud), more formally the Canton of Vaud, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation.

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Vincenzo Giustiniani

Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani (13 September 1564 – 27 December 1637) was an aristocratic Italian banker, art collector and intellectual of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, known today largely for the Giustiniani art collection, assembled at the Palazzo Giustiniani, near the Pantheon, in Rome, and at the family palazzo at Bassano by Vincenzo and his brother, Cardinal Benedetto, and for his patronage of the artist Caravaggio.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James-Alexandre_de_Pourtalès

, Mélanie de Pourtalès, Naples, Napoleon III, Napoleonic Wars, Neuchâtel, Newport, Rhode Island, Oxford University Press, Palézieux, Paris, Place Vendôme, Rainulphe d'Osmond, Rembrandt, Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford, Rougemont, Switzerland, Rue Tronchet, Saint-Cyr-sous-Dourdan, Sandro Botticelli, Second French Empire, Seigneur, Sotheby's, SUNY Press, United States Senate, University of Chicago Press, University of South Carolina Press, Vaud, Vincenzo Giustiniani, William Hunter (senator), William Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney, Yverdon-les-Bains, 1st arrondissement of Paris, 6th arrondissement of Lyon.

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People from the Kingdom of Prussia

People from the Principality of Neuchâtel

Pourtalès Collection

Pourtalès family

Swiss counts

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