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Pair of oils on canvas depicting the portraits of a quality couple, the parents-in-law of the General of the Empire Gabriel Lérivint *, the husband and wife Fleury Bedane, parents of the wife of the General (Jeanne-Anne Fleury Bedane, 1752- 1822), attributed to Louis Tocqué ** painter of the king, in carved and gilded wooden frames, of the eighteenth century.
These tables are in good condition, some accidents on the frames (some gaps: we have the pieces that will be to pick up). The frames are exactly the same.
These paintings are not signed but it is marked on the back of the painting of the woman "Jeanne Anne Joubert Bonnaire Wife of Mr. Fleury Bedane beautiful mother of General Lérivint" and "painted by Louis Tocqué painter of the king, member of the Academy of Painting in 1731, born in Paris in 1696, died in the Louvre in 1772 ". They can therefore be attributed to this painter, by their quality and subject. Mr. Fleury Bedane holds in his hand a letter marked "Mr. Michel Leucque merchant in Amsterdam"
These paintings come from the sale of part of the estate of the Empire General Lérivint.
A note: some accidents and lacks on the frames, pieces of the two frames are removed (at the red arrows, we have the pieces). Both paintings were reentoiled. The paintings were cleaned. Look at the pictures.
General of the French Revolution and the First Empire . He is the father of cavalry colonel Joseph Charles Lerivint (1776-1812). The young Gabriel Lerivint engages very early in the army of the King. He had a good military career before the revolutionary wars, gradually climbing the military ladder. First junior officer, he became lieutenant-colonel, then colonel in the cavalry. On January 10, 1794, Gabriel-Jacques Lérivint was promoted Brigadier General by the representatives of the people to the Armies of the Rhine and the Moselle. Attached to the division of the young General Championnet, in the Moselle Army, Lérivint joined his division on June 10, 1794. He served in Liège on August 10, 1794, then in Fleurus on June 26 of the same year. On July 2, 1794, Lérivint was assigned to the Army of Sambre-et-Meuse, where he replaced General Dubois. He took command of the cavalry on March 24, 1795. After a first reform in February-September 1797, Lérivint was appointed commander of the department of Sambre-et-Meuse, then the department of Dyle and finally the department of Deux-Nèthes, from 1799 to 1802. He was appointed Knight of the Empire by Napoleon I in 1810. He was made Knight of the Royal and Military Order of Saint Louis . Retired Field Marshal at Saumur. He has thus made all the campaigns since the reign of Louis XV until the Empire. Gabriel Lerivint died on June 14, 1823 in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, at the advanced age of 82 years.
The Empire Generals fought alongside the Emperor Napoleon I during his many campaigns. Their loyalty, loyalty and skills have for the most part allowed them to climb the military ladder on the one hand, but also social by becoming members of the high and rich French nobility. The collections of these families of Empire Generals are therefore particularly rich and sought after.
Famous French portraitist. His father, a mediocre portrait painter, destined Tocqué for the same career as himself. Remained an orphan at the age of 10, the young Louis was collected by Nattier, who made him make copies of portraits that we owe to the greatest masters of this kind. Tocqué thus acquired a beautiful, broad manner, and managed to give his copies the same perfection as the originals. Tocqué, who had also studied with Nicolas Bertin, an artist boasted of his time, fixed himself, like his father-in-law, on the genre of portraiture, while avoiding the fantasies and emphasis of this one, known for mixing realism and fantasies by inserting mythological characters into his works. His reputation soon spread, he acquired vogue, and was considered the most skilled artists of his time, including Musse and Boucher.Accepted at the Academy in 1731, on presentation of the "Peirenc de Moras Family" he was received at the beginning of 1734, with three-quarter portraits of Louis Galloche and Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (Louvre). In 1739 he had to paint the portrait of the Dauphin, the year after that of Queen Marie Leczinska. Tocque is at Versailles with portraits of the Marquis of Matignon, Gresset in red dress, Tournehem, the Marquis de Marigny, one of the most beautiful of the group, portraits in full foot of Maria Theresa, Infanta of Spain, very pompous , of the Empress Elizabeth of Russia, that one not finished. He is also in good position at Dijon, Orleans, Nancy, and, with the portrait of M. de Saint-Florentin, at the Museum of Marseilles. From 1737 to 1759, Tocqué exhibited at almost all the Salons without seeing his success falter. In 1757, the Tsarina Elizabeth had him come to St. Petersburg to have his portrait of his hand and make some portraits, which he was generously paid. On his return to Paris, he went through many of the northern courtyards, leaving his works everywhere, and he was received a member of all the Academies of Europe. He had married the daughter of Nattier his master, and when he had finished his He abandoned painting altogether to enjoy quietly the fortune which his works had procured for him. (Artist referenced in Bénézit).
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