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Breguet: Je m’y connais, la plus heureuse est près de vous
A follow-up to a post made regarding the Constance de Salm Liber amicorum and Breguet: Breguet made a dedication (page 272) to the Princess in the form of a watch but alas I was never able to read the dedication clearly. A couple of years ago the Louvre (Département des Arts graphiques) acquired the Book of Friends; on a whim an email was sent to the Louvre and was kindly answered with the Breguet's dedication...
"Je m’y connais, la plus heureuse est près de vous"
May someone translate Breguet's dedication for me; Google translation does not seem correct, thank you.
Breguet: Je m’y connais, la plus heureuse est près de vous
A follow-up to a post made regarding the Constance de Salm Liber amicorum and Breguet: Breguet made a dedication (page 272) to the Princess in the form of a watch but alas I was never able to read the dedication clearly. A couple of years ago the Louvre (...
Apropos of the Book of Friends
Enclosed: the Book of Friends and Winged Horse watercolor (page 99) by Carle Vernet (1758-1836). The Book of Friends offers a glimpse of the literary, poetic, scientific, political, musical etc. milieu the "watchmaker" mingled in. I would recommend any fa...
Apropos of Une soiree chez la Princesse Constance de Salm en 1806
The crazed A.-L. Breguet fan will note that some of Jean-Jacques Lagrenée's subjects in the Book of Friends also appear in the Ambroise Tardieu (1778–1841) engraving Une soiree chez la Princesse Constance de Salm en 1806 in which Breguet appears; namely: ...
A note for the curious...Breguet ephemera.
In the Book of Friends is a sketch: Etudes de 22 têtes de profil (Breguet, Courier, Girodet, Talma, Houdon, etc.) by Antoine Chazal (1793-1854) which is clearly a preparatory drawing for An Evening with the Princess of Salm which will be engraved by Ambro...
Traduction du sens de cette dédicace d'A-L Breguet à la Princesse Constance de Salm - Translation of the meaning of this dedication of A-L Breguet to Princess Constance of Salm
Translation of the meaning of this dedication written by Breguet. Drawing in the center: A watch dial with the 12 hours and in the middle of the dial the great signature of Breguet. - Above in an arc of a circle: Je m’y connais . The sentence said in Fren...