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French school of the 19th century. Bust portrait of Charles-Guillaume Gamot Oil on canvas. Size : 54x44 cm. (Restorations). Handwritten label on the back, indicating that this painting is a copy after Baron François Gérard (1770-1837). Portrait of my great-grandfather, Mr. Gamot, prefect at Mende and Auxerre. Copy, by my grandmother, his daughter, of the original by Gérard, ..., and signed Harlé". Provenance: Clémence Gamot (1799-1848), wife of Jean-Baptiste Partiot. Then Louise Partiot (1827-1897), wife of Casimir Edouard Harlé. Through descendants to the present day. Charles-Guillaume Gamot (1766-1820), prefect of Lozère and then Yonne. He married Antoinette-Louise Auguié, niece of Madame Campan, becoming Marshal Ney's brother-in-law. During the Second Restoration, Gamot was deposed, Ney imprisoned and executed. Gamot, loyal to his brother-in-law, gave him a burial in the Père-Lachaise cemetery. He died in 1820, aged 54, and is buried in Marshal Ney's tomb.

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French school of the 19th century. Bust portrait of Charles-Guillaume Gamot Oil on canvas. Size : 54x44 cm. (Restorations). Handwritten label on the back, indicating that this painting is a copy after Baron François Gérard (1770-1837). Portrait of my great-grandfather, Mr. Gamot, prefect at Mende and Auxerre. Copy, by my grandmother, his daughter, of the original by Gérard, ..., and signed Harlé". Provenance: Clémence Gamot (1799-1848), wife of Jean-Baptiste Partiot. Then Louise Partiot (1827-1897), wife of Casimir Edouard Harlé. Through descendants to the present day. Charles-Guillaume Gamot (1766-1820), prefect of Lozère and then Yonne. He married Antoinette-Louise Auguié, niece of Madame Campan, becoming Marshal Ney's brother-in-law. During the Second Restoration, Gamot was deposed, Ney imprisoned and executed. Gamot, loyal to his brother-in-law, gave him a burial in the Père-Lachaise cemetery. He died in 1820, aged 54, and is buried in Marshal Ney's tomb.

Estimate 500 - 600 EUR

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