Painted just three years after the storming of the Bastille and the overthrow of the French monarchy this is a pleasingly frank portrait of a French officer of the Republican Infantry of the Line; he looks determined but of a good nature.
Inscribed lower left 'Tanisch a Gle de France en 1792'.
1792 was the year in which the first French Republic was proclaimed and was marked by great military success, expanding the French borders across Europe.
SIZE: 27.75 x 23 inches inc. frame
PROVENANCE: Nottinghamshire Private Collection.
Private Collection of a Fellow of Cambridge University.
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