Jean Antoine GIROUST (1753-1817) Portrait of an officer of the Institution des Invalides, knight of the Legion of Honor and decorated with the Lily. Restoration period. Oil on canvas (repainted). Signed on the right. 41 x 32 cm. Gilded frame with palmettes. A history painter born in 1753, Giroust won the first Grand Prix de Rome in 1778 and was elected Academician in 1788.

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