Live auction - Lot 223

[French school]

LEDRU, Hilaire

Portrait of a gentleman.

Ca. 1795-1800

€ 800 / 1.000

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Drawing, black chalk, charcoal, 42 x 31,4 cm, velin paper, signed in pencil at lower left "Hilaire Ledru" (damp stains and foxing in margins).

Under gilt frame (not studied outside frame).

Magnificent drawn portrait of a young gentleman in empire-fashion clothing. Most likely a highly-ranked Napoleonic figure. The French painter Hilaire Le Dru was particularly known for his portraits of French republican and Napoleonic generals. He exhibited a drawing of Napoleon at the 1796 Salon, of which it has previously been suggested that it is the present drawing.

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Lot 223

Portrait of a gentleman.

LEDRU, Hilaire

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