Lot 164: LOUIS-FRANÇOIS AUBRY (FRENCH, 1767-1851)

LOUIS-FRANÇOIS AUBRY (FRENCH, 1767-1851)
Jérôme Bonaparte (1784-1860), King of Westphalia 1807-1813, in uniform of the Westphalian Infantry, white coat with gold-embroidered facings and blue border, gold epaulettes, wearing the badge and breast-star of the Grand Eagle of the Imperial French Order of the Legion of Honour, curled dark hair and sideburns
signed 'Aubry' (mid-right)
on ivory
oval, 1 5/8 in. (42 mm.) high, gold mount

Sotheby's, London, 10 May 1976, lot 25.
Bruton Knowles, Gloucestershire, 25 April 1996, lot 84.

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