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Bust portrait of J. F. D. Tardy de Montravel,...

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Bust portrait of J. F. D. Tardy de Montravel, Lieutenant-Colonel of Artillery, Count, bare head, white hair, blue suit, red piping, gilded buttons, epaulet and counter-epaulet in gold passementerie, wearing the knight's cross of the Order of Saint-Louis, below his count's coat of arms on two flags and in front of a cannon and howitzer; oil on canvas, gilded frame; 41 x 33 cm. Second half of the 18th century. Good condition. Jean-François Damien TARDY de MONTRAVEL, born February 14, 1744 in Valence, commander of the Châlons-sur-Marne artillery school, † in Arles. Marne, † in Arles in 1805.