A GROUP OF THREE FRENCH FRAMED PORTRAIT MEDALLIONS OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FIGURES

19TH-20TH CENTURY

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A GROUP OF THREE FRENCH FRAMED PORTRAIT MEDALLIONS OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FIGURES
19TH-20TH CENTURY
Comprising: an oval wax portrait in a giltwood and gilt-composition frame; a circular bronzed repoussé example of Jean-Jacques Rousseu in an engine-tooled ormolu slip and square mahogany frame; and a similarly-framed circular plaster example of General Louis Lazare Hoche; together with an Italian fruitwood urn-shaped finial
The first: 8½ x 7 5/8 in. (21.5 x 19.3 cm.) overall (4)

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Louis Lazare Hoche (1768-1797) was a French soldier who rose to the rank of général in the Revolutionary Army. During the French Revolutionary Wars campaigns in which he was involved included: the (Second) Battle of Wissembourg (1793-4), which enabled the French to take control of Alsace from the Prussians; defeat and capture of invading Royalists along France's west coast (1795); and the failed attempt to send troops to assist the United Irishmen against the British in 1796-7. Hoche had survived accusations of treason in 1794 - so common during the Reign of Terror - only to die of consumption at the age of just 29 in 1797.

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