French officier d'Etat-Major, c. 1805

Original unsigned (slightly crude) watercolor inscribed "A ma petite Pauline"; full-length figure wearing blue coat faced with light blue, with yellow buttons, gold-laced red Hungarian waistcoat, light blue pantaloons, left hand on scimitar, holding in right hand a colpack with red bag and light blue plume. Original unsigned (slightly crude) watercolor inscribed "A ma petite Pauline"; full-length figure wearing blue coat faced with light blue, with yellow buttons, gold-laced red Hungarian waistcoat, light blue pantaloons, left hand on scimitar, holding in right hand a colpack with red bag and light blue plume. Upright; yellowed, creased. Title supplied by cataloger Paris, Delacre sale, 1962.