Aux Collection

Pigeon shoot Poster
Poster for the TIR AUX PIGEONS at Monte Carlo where fashionable people in smart clothes shoot live pigeons for fun

Caen, France - Saint Etienne Church and Abbey (Abbaye aux Hommes), semi-circular apse and high school. Date: circa 1910s

Neanderthal Man
An illustration of Neanderthal man 500, 000 years ago based on a skeleton found at La Chapelle-aux-Saints in 1908. It had been proven since then that man was by no means in the gorilla stage

Correze Man / Neanderthal
CORREZE MAN (Neanderthal) reconstructed from a skull found at La Chapelle-aux- saints, France, in 1908/9

Sarah Bernhardt / Sourire
Sarah Bernhardt in Dumas La Dame aux Camelias

Brochure cover for Palace Aux Femmes, Palace Theatre, Paris, 1927 Date: 1927

Tir Aux Pigeons (Sem)
The great thing about Le tir aux pigeons at Monte Carlo is that you can do it in your best clothes, theres no danger and no one (except the pigeons) gets hurt... Date: 1905

Aux Elegantes Poster
Poster advertising Aux Elegantes in Londons Old Brompton Road

Paris Stamp Market
LA BOURSE AUX TIMBRES-POSTE The stamp market in the Champs Elysees, Paris

Fleurs Eau De Cologne
A striking art deco label for Eau de Cologne aux Fleurs

Poster, Sainte Marie aux Mines, Haut-Rhin, France Date: 1950

Le Marche Aux Poissons
A detailed painting showing a fish market in Gouda, a city south of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, with Saint John's Church looming in the background

La Messe Aux Brancardiers
This oil painting depicts the religious service of mass, held by a priest wearing white robes, at the front of an altar, placed at some crumbled walls, topped with the crucifixion cross

Illustration, A Day at the Races
Colour illustration, A Day at the Races showing men and women with carriage and picnic hamper. From the coloured lithographs Les Cocottes Aux Bains De Mer

Illustration, Glamour Girls by the Seaside
Colour illustration, Glamour Girls by the Seaside, showing women sea bathing. From a page captioned, Pleasures of The Era of Peace'

Pavilly, France - Concours de Musique - Place de la Halle (Halle aux Grains). Date: 1906

Fashionable woman with tricorn hat, era of Marie Antoinette
Fashionable woman with tricorn hat, redingote over petticoat, era of Marie Antoinette. Copperplate etching by Auguste Etienne Guillaumot from Costumes et coiffures du XVIIIe siecle

Woman fixing her stockings, era of Marie Antoinette
Woman in dress a la Polonaise fixing her stockings, era of Marie Antoinette. Femme en robe ?? la Polonaise remettant sa jarretiere

Man in dressing gown over yellow trousers and green waistcoat. Robe de chambre. Handcoloured pochoir (stencil) etching after an illustration by George Barbier from Tommaso Antonginis Journal des

Aux Enfants Assistes: L Abandon - Edouard Gelhay
Edouard Gelhays Aux Enfants Assistes: L Abandon - a mother deposits an unwanted child at a French state-run institution. Date: 1887

Medieval men bowling and playing marbles
Medieval men bowling down a hill, while others play la fossette, wherein they try to throw as many marbles into a hole as possible

Variations of throwing games or shove ha penny
The game of palet or la patte aux Jettons, variations of throwing games or shove ha penny. After an engraving by Claudine Bouzonnet Stella

Marie Daubron as La Belle aux Cheveux d Or, 1846
Madame Marie Daubron as La Belle aux Cheveux d Or by the Cogniard brothers, Theatre de la Porte St. Martin, 1846. She was the inspiration for the poet Charles Baudelaires Fleurs du Mal

French ballet dancer in La Belle aux Cheveux d Or, 1847
French ballet dancer in La Belle aux Cheveux d Or by the Cogniard brothers, Theatre de la Porte St. Martin, 1847. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by Alexandre Lacauchie from Victor

Tournan as Sombre Accueil in La Belle aux Cheveux d Or, 1847
French actor Pierre Bernard Tournan as Sombre Accueil in La Belle aux Cheveux d Or by the Cogniard brothers, Theatre de la Porte St. Martin, 1847

Eulalie-Maria Desbrosses as Germaine in La
Soprano opera singer Eulalie-Maria Desbrosses as La Mere Germaine in La Journee aux Avantures by Etienne Mehul, Theatre Royal de l Opera Comique, 1816. Handcoloured lithograph by F

Woman in hairstyle called Feelings Returned, 1770s
Woman in hairstyle with ringlets, plumes and miniature bonnet called Feelings Returned. Coiffure aux sentiments replies. Handcoloured lithograph by de Laubadere from Octave Uzannes Stylish Hairstyle

Woman in bonnet with bells and ribbons, Bonnet aux Clochettes. Handcoloured lithograph by de Laubadere from Octave Uzannes Stylish Hairstyle or Eccentric Finery from the era of King Louis XVI

Honore Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de Mirabeau 1749-1791. In costume of a depute aux Etats-generaux. Handcoloured lithograph after a portrait in Roger de Gaignieres gallery portfolio X from Le Bibliophile

La dame aux camellias
Illustration of a woman admiring herself in a mirror. Artist: Aubrey Beardsley Date: 1890s

Paintings by Post-Impressionists - Grafton Galleries
Giving Amusement to all London: Paintings by Post-Impressionists. Works by " A Group of artists who cannot be defined by any single term", exhibited at the Grafton Galleries, London

WW2 - Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps in France - unloading flour supplies for the troops " (to) help them march to victory". Date: circa 1944

Bleriot XI 8, undergoing repair after landing Aux Vaches (among the cows - the French term for landing away from an airfield) Date: circa 1910

France - Nice - Parc aux Huitres (Oyster Park). Date: circa 1898

Paris coiffures for May 1866
A selection of womens headdresses. Date: May 1866

MARCHE AUX PUCES
Parisians wander and browse the stalls at the Marche aux Puces, which sells antiques, books, bric-a-brac and much more. Date: circa 1940

AUX TROIS QUARTIERS 1909
Ladies in fashionable hobble skirts, one wears a coatee or spencer with Directoire collar & lapels & a blouse with a ruff. She also wears a large hat not unlike a Lunardi. Date: 1909

FRENCH PROVINCIAL HOUSE
A characteristic example of an elegant French provincial town house - described as a petit hotel particulier, at Fontenay-aux- Roses (Seine) in the environs of Paris Date: circa 1900

CHARLES FECHTER / FUN 1868
CHARLES FECHTER actor in, inter alia, La Dame aux Camelias Date: 1824 - 1879

FRENCH IN DAHOMEY
The French tricouleur is borne proudly into the smoking city of Abomey, Dahomey - Honneur aux braves soldats ! Vive la France ! Date: 1892

PISSOIR, DOULLENS
Pissoir in le marche aux bestiaux (cattle market), Doullens, France Date: circa 1905

Celebration of French Aviators. Date: circa 1910s

Macon, France - The Wooden House
Macon, Burgundy France. A15th-16th century wooden house (Maison de Bois) in Place aux Herbes - at this point the lower shop was a clothing outfitter. Date: circa 1910s

French Campaign in Morocco - Red Cross - Casablanca Hospital - A Nurse working a ten hour shift. Date: 1908

WW1 Propaganda - Vive L Italie - Gloire aux Allies. Date: circa 1916

Paris, France - Halle aux Vins. Date: 1829

Woman (Physics personified) whipping the bare bottom of one
La physique confond l ignorance Dedie aux souscripteurs. French cartoon shows a woman (Physics personified) whipping the bare bottom of one man (possibly Janinet) while another (possibly Abbe Miollan)

One of a set of cards showing the Allies as butterflies
Beautiful hand painted card showing Serbia, one of the Aux Allies Human Butterfly series. WW1 Date: circa 1916

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