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Capitaine HOOGSTOEL (École ANGLAISE du début du...

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Lucia Elizabeth "Betsy" Balcombe Abell (1802-1871) offering a bouquet of flowers to Napoleon, at the Briard house on the island of St. Helena Canvas, in tondo. D : 24,4 cm According to pen and ink inscriptions on old labels on the reverse, this painting was made by Captain Hoogstoel on October 23, 1816. Marguerite Gérard would have made the corrections and the work would have been offered to the maréchale Bertrand.