Gazette Drouot logo print
Lot n° 42

Oil on rectangular canvas: Portrait of a colonel...

Estimate :
Subscribers only

Oil on rectangular canvas: Portrait of a colonel of horse hunters of the Second-Empire, dark green suit with red piping buttoning right with twelve silver buttons, dark green collar with red piping and patelette, epaulets and snowshoes in silver trimmings, giberne banner and belt in silver braids with three stripes, ornaments with an eagle in gilded brass, gilded brass belt plate with a hunting horn, red pants with a black stripe ; he is decorated with the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Legion of Honor and holds a light cavalry officer's saber model 1822 in his left hand; gilt frame with acanthus leaf decoration; 99 x 79 cm. (Faded). Second-Empire period. Very good condition.