"Gudenus" Topic

I own a well thumbed copy of Reiter, Husaren und Grenadiere with its excellent (and charming) coloured illustrations of Austrian, Prussian and other German regiments of the 18th Century by Gudenus. Chartrand's Osprey series on the French Army of Louis XV has many similar of the French army also by Gudenus (only in B+W, alas) but the captions to the illos say they are from a private collection.

Are the original coloured illustrations of the French of this era by Gudenus available in any public collection? Has no one ever thought of making a book of these similar to the one for the Germans above?

What other countries did Gudenus illustrate – if any? I've seen contemporary books of uniforms of the Piedmontese on the Net but was any comprehensive contemporary publication produced of, say, the Spanish army?

As far as I know, Gudenus depicts the Armies in the german theatre of Polish Succession War, so I guess no Piedmontese, Spanish or Neapolitans.

The French illustrations are described (and some reproduced) here: link here:

Mr Koch was identified by Chartrand as the source of the illos in his Osprey series and Koch's article about the original manuscrfipt "The Karsruhe Manuscript from 1735" appears in a publication (in German) called Zeitschriffft fur Heereskunde (Journal of Military History) issue 292: link

Where is the original manuscript?

Has no one ever published it?

The Gudenus illustrations are beautiful- especially the French. I don't know the location of the original manuscript or of any published collection of the French illustrations unfortunately.

I believe that Gudenus was a junior officer in one of the Reichsarmee units serving under Prince Eugene on the Rhine in 1734- during which time he produced, as an amateur artist, the illustrations of the Imperial troops collected in 'Reiter, Husaren und Grenadiere'.

Memory is hazy but I think that he was captured by the French at some point in the campaign and whilst in their camp produced a second series (even more attractive and characterful) of French troops. I don't know of any other works by him.