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Large Fine Art Antique Portrait Oil Painting Military Red Coat Napoleonic French Drummer Boy Fran�ois Joseph Bara. Title ''18th Century Napoleonic Drummer Boy� Dated 95 for 1895 After Jacques-Louis David.Subject in three quarter length front profile view portrait believed to be the known French military drummer boy scene during the Napoleonic era Fran�ois Joseph Bara. Wearing a red coat tunic with a white shirt & gold buttons, carrying holding his brown wood barrel drum. Above with his bicorne hat with gold lace trim & having white trousers. He is looking directly at the viewer, he has blue eyes and red rosy cheeks angelic look.In the style of after Jacques-Louis David.Signed by the British Victorian era artist M Sanderson.In our opinion this such a fine work.Circa late 19th century dated 95 for 1895.Medium is oil on canvasFrame is an impressive size being 69.5 cm wide and 90 cm high.Having such beautiful detail.Set in a fine gilt frame which enhances this painting further. Fran�ois Joseph Bara, also written Barra (30 July 1779 in Palaiseau[1 � 7 December 1793 in Jallais), was a young French republican drummer boy at the time of the Revolution, and is known for his death and martyrdom at only 14 years old at the hands of pro-Monarchist forces at Vend�eBara''s father was a woodranger and his mother was a domestic servant. Both worked in the Palaiseau district for the Princes of Cond�. When Bara was twelve his father died, so when the Lev�e en masse was issued, his mother enlisted him as an army volunteer. Bara was too young to join the army but attached himself to a unit fighting counter revolutionariesin Vend�e. After his death, General J.-B. Desmarres gave this account, by letter, to the convention. ''Yesterday this courageous youth, surrounded by brigands, chose to perish rather than give them the two horses he was leading.''The boy''s death was seized on as an opportunity by revolutionaries, who praised him at ...