A young Officer, facing left in red-piped green uniform with white figured red collar, silver epaulettes, aiguillettes and buttons, black stock, decorated with the badge of the Royal French Orders of the Legion of Honour combined with the Lily, curly dark hair and sideburns
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CHARLES-GUILLAUME-ALEXANDRE BOURGEOIS (1759-1832)
A young Officer, facing left in red-piped green uniform with white figured red collar, silver epaulettes, aiguillettes and buttons, black stock, decorated with the badge of the Royal French Orders of the Legion of Honour combined with the Lily, curly dark hair and sideburns
signed with initials and dated 'C. B. 1817' (lower right)
oval, 2 7/16 in. (63 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount within rectangular ebonized wood frame set with four gilt-bronze star spandrels
A young Officer, facing left in red-piped green uniform with white figured red collar, silver epaulettes, aiguillettes and buttons, black stock, decorated with the badge of the Royal French Orders of the Legion of Honour combined with the Lily, curly dark hair and sideburns
signed with initials and dated 'C. B. 1817' (lower right)
oval, 2 7/16 in. (63 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount within rectangular ebonized wood frame set with four gilt-bronze star spandrels
Sale room notice
The sitter has been identified as from the "Garde du Corps du Comte d'Artois".