VINCENT BERTRAND (FRENCH, b. 1770)

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VINCENT BERTRAND (FRENCH, b. 1770)
Jacques Marie Anatole le Clerc, Count, later Marquis de Juigné (1788-1845), in the uniform of an Aide-de-camp to the Marshall of the 1st Empire, wearing the chevalier cross of the French Legion of Honour and the badge of the Order of the Lys; sky background
On vellum
Oval, 110 mm. high, gilt-metal mount within rectangular panel with lemonwood veneer

Provenance

Hilde Frank Collection, Leipzig.
Ernst Holzscheiter Collection, Meilen, inv. no. MD / 0343; part I, Sotheby's, London, 28 March 1977, lot 133.
Mr A. M. van den Brinck, The Hague; (\+) Bonhams, London, 12 July 1993, lot 138.

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Lot Essay

Jacques Marie Anatole le Clerc, Count, later 4th Marquis de Juigné was Squadron Chief of the National Guard, Aide-de-camp to Marshall Oudinot, Duke of Reggio and in 1826 he was made a hereditary Peer of France.
We are indebted to Dr Dimitry Gorchkoff for identifying the present sitter on the basis of a photograph.

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