Pair of Flintlock Pistols of Count Heinrich von Brühl (1700-1763) ca. 1740 Adrien Reynier the Younger, called Le Hollandois These exquisitely decorated pistols represent a high point of the gunmakers art during the reign of Louis XV, when the French style of firearms ornament set the fashion for all of Europe. They are signed Le Hollandois (the Dutchman), a nickname applied to three generations of gunmakers in the Reynier family, originally from Holland, who worked in Paris and created firearms for members of the royal court from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-eighteenth century. The style of the first Le Hollandois, Adrien Reynier the Elder (born ca. 1630), is documented in a widely influential pattern book of ornament for firearms (acc. no. 2016.403.9), published in Paris in 1660, in addition to extant signed firearms. His son, Adrien Reynier the Younger, became gunmaker to the king in 1723. This pair of pistols exemplify the way in which the style established by the elder Le Hollan

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Pair of Flintlock Pistols of Count Heinrich von Brühl (1700-1763) ca. 1740 Adrien Reynier the Younger, called Le Hollandois These exquisitely decorated pistols represent a high point of the gunmakers art during the reign of Louis XV, when the French style of firearms ornament set the fashion for all of Europe. They are signed Le Hollandois (the Dutchman), a nickname applied to three generations of gunmakers in the Reynier family, originally from Holland, who worked in Paris and created firearms for members of the royal court from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-eighteenth century. The style of the first Le Hollandois, Adrien Reynier the Elder (born ca. 1630), is documented in a widely influential pattern book of ornament for firearms (acc. no. 2016.403.9), published in Paris in 1660, in addition to extant signed firearms. His son, Adrien Reynier the Younger, became gunmaker to the king in 1723. This pair of pistols exemplify the way in which the style established by the elder Le Hollan

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