Portrait of an Officer, thought to be Général Jean-Claude Moreau (1755-1828), full length, in uniform, on a terrace, a view of Florence beyond.

This is one of the last - and most expressive - of the series of portraits of the format executed by Gauffier during his long residence in Florence. With the French occupation of the Italian peninsula, the artist lost the closely interconnected group of English patrons on whom he had depended in the mid 1790s. This portrait is traditionally identified as of Général Moreau, but shows the officer in the uniform of a Chef du Brigade: of the two generals of the name, one, Jean-Claude Moreau (1755-1828), served in Italy as Chef du Brigade at the relevant time, 23 September 1800 to 22 September 1801, being promoted to Général in 1803. However, when a variant of the portrait was sold in the Boberg sale, Bukowski, Stockholm, 30 Oct.-Nov. 1946, lot 102, this was identified as of Général [Claude-Ignace-Francois] Michaud (1751-1833); he also served in Italy, but the documented movements of his aide-de-camp, Henri Beyl (Stendhal) establish that he was in Lombardy from 1 February 1801 and Gauffier would presumably have portrayed him in the uniform of a general.