Benjamin Constant

PLATES

(Between pages 114 and 115.)

1

The High Street, Edinburgh in about 1780, by David Allan (1744–

96)

2

Benjamin Constant aged about 20, miniature on ivory, artist

unknown

3

Sir James Mackintosh, engraving from Mackintosh’s Memoirs

(1836) after a portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830)

4

Isabelle de Charrière in 1777, portrait in oils by the Danish artist

Jens Juel (1745–1802)

5 Benjamin Constant as a young man, anonymous drawing

6

‘Benjamin Constant en 1792’, after a silhouette by Marianne

Moula (1760–1826)

7 and

8

Ludwig Ferdinand Huber (1764–1804) and his wife Therese

Forster-Huber, née Heyne (1764–1829), miniatures, artist

unknown

9

Germaine de Staël, miniature made by Firmin Massot probably in

the spring of 1812

10 Benjamin Constant in his thirties, miniature by Firmin Massot

11 Julie Talma, after a portrait by Pascal Glain

12 Charlotte von Hardenberg

13

View of Göttingen in 1791, after a drawing by Heinrich Wilhelm

Grape

14

Portrait in oils of Benjamin Constant dating from 1815 or later,

artist unknown

15

Engraved portrait of Benjamin Constant from Discours de M.

Benjamin Constant à la Chambre des Députés (volume II, 1828)

16

Portrait in oils of Benjamin Constant, probably in 1830, signed

‘Hercule de Roche’

17 18

and

19

Three views of the death mask of Benjamin Constant made by the

sculptor Gois and recently rediscovered by Kurt Kloocke in the

anthropological collection of the Musée de l’Homme, Paris