Lot 141
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NICOLAS JACQUES (FRENCH, 1780-1844)
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NICOLAS JACQUES (FRENCH, 1780-1844)

Comte de Flahaut (1785-1870), in blue coat with black collar and large gold buttons, white waistcoat and tied cravat; landscape and sky background

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NICOLAS JACQUES (FRENCH, 1780-1844)
Comte de Flahaut (1785-1870), in blue coat with black collar and large gold buttons, white waistcoat and tied cravat; landscape and sky background
signed 'Jacques' (lower left)
rectangular, 2½ x 1 7/8 in. (63 x 48 mm.), stamped inner gold mount within gilt-metal mount within rectangular black wood frame
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Lot Essay

Auguste Charles Joseph, Comte de Flahaut de la Billarderie, a French soldier and diplomat, was believed to be the illegitimate son of Talleyrand. He was the paramour of Napoléon's sister Caroline Murat and of Napoléon's adopted daughter Hortense de Beauharnais, whose son by him became Duke of Morny, Emperor Napoléon III's half-brother. Flahaut was exiled during the reign of the two last Bourbon kings and returned to France in 1830, being ambassador at Vienna 1842-1848 and London 1860-1862.

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