[REVOLUTIONARY WAR]. Ink and watercolor portraits of Marquis de LAFAYETTE and Charlotte CORDAY.
Sale 1345 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography Online
Lots Open
Jun 19, 2024
Lots Close
Jul 2, 2024
Timed Online / Cincinnati
Estimate
$500 -
$700
Sold for $349
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Lot Description
[REVOLUTIONARY WAR]. Ink and watercolor portraits of Marquis de LAFAYETTE and Charlotte CORDAY.
Ink and watercolor portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette, 1793, sheet 8 7/8 x 12 3/4 in., framed to 17 x 21 1/8 in., not examined out of frame. Signed "T.B." and dated 1793.
Rendered during the Marquis de Lafayette's imprisonment by Austrian forces after radical factions in France ordered his arrest. The Marquis is rendered in profile wearing a blue uniform with epaulettes, surrounded by decorative borders, and labeled "Lafayette".
Ink and watercolor portrait of Charlotte Corday, 1793, sheet 8 1/4 x 12 7/16 in., framed to 17 x 21 1/8 in., not examined out of frame. Signed "T.B." and dated 1793.
A profile portrait of Charlotte Corday, a supporter of the Girondins during the French Revolution and best remembered as the assassin of Jacobin and Reign of Terror leader Jean-Paul Marat. The drawing is dated 1793, the same year of her execution by guillotine. Corday is drawn in profile and surrounded by elaborate borders.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
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