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An officer in gilt-studded armour with gold border and brown straps, pink jacket, lace cravat and black stock, powdered wig en queue, decorated with the blue badge of the Royal French Order of Military Merit
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JOHANN HEINRICH HURTER (SWISS, 1734-1799)
An officer in gilt-studded armour with gold border and brown straps, pink jacket, lace cravat and black stock, powdered wig en queue, decorated with the blue badge of the Royal French Order of Military Merit
signed and dated on the counter-enamel 'IHHurter. fecit. 1768.'
enamel on copper
oval, 1 7/16 in. (36 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount
An officer in gilt-studded armour with gold border and brown straps, pink jacket, lace cravat and black stock, powdered wig en queue, decorated with the blue badge of the Royal French Order of Military Merit
signed and dated on the counter-enamel 'IHHurter. fecit. 1768.'
enamel on copper
oval, 1 7/16 in. (36 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount
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The sitter is wearing the badge of the Royal French Order of Military Merit which was created in 1759 by King Louis XV in order to reward foreign officers of Protestant faith serving in the French army.