Lot Essay
The sitter is probably a French émigré serving in an English regiment.
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CHARLES HÉNARD, circa 1795/1800
A young officer bust-length slightly to the left, wearing the silver-braided blue uniform of an English Hussar with silver epaulets and fur-border, decorated with the badge of the Royal French Order of St-Louis, his short-cut hair powdered; oval -- 7.9 cm high, gilt-wood frame
A young officer bust-length slightly to the left, wearing the silver-braided blue uniform of an English Hussar with silver epaulets and fur-border, decorated with the badge of the Royal French Order of St-Louis, his short-cut hair powdered; oval -- 7.9 cm high, gilt-wood frame