Lot Essay
The Order of Calatrava was founded in 1158 by King Sancho III of Castilia. In the 19th Century, it was integrated to the Spanish crown and became an order of merit.
A Knight of Calatrava, facing left in black robes with red cuffs and red lined black hood, the badge of the order on his left breast, dark hair, beard and moustache, his right arm leaning on the back of an upholstered red chair before a stone balustrade; yellow curtain drawn aside to reveal landscape beyond
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FRANÇOIS MEURET (1800-1887)
A Knight of Calatrava, facing left in black robes with red cuffs and red lined black hood, the badge of the order on his left breast, dark hair, beard and moustache, his right arm leaning on the back of an upholstered red chair before a stone balustrade; yellow curtain drawn aside to reveal landscape beyond
signed and dated 'Meuret. 1840.' (upper right)
rectangular, 4 3/8 x 3 3/8 in. (111 x 86 mm.), gilt-metal mount within a gilt-wood frame with red velvet mount
A Knight of Calatrava, facing left in black robes with red cuffs and red lined black hood, the badge of the order on his left breast, dark hair, beard and moustache, his right arm leaning on the back of an upholstered red chair before a stone balustrade; yellow curtain drawn aside to reveal landscape beyond
signed and dated 'Meuret. 1840.' (upper right)
rectangular, 4 3/8 x 3 3/8 in. (111 x 86 mm.), gilt-metal mount within a gilt-wood frame with red velvet mount