Vauban, with his scar on his left cheek received at the headquarters of douai. Chapter iii. The effigies of vauban. A. - the portraits. . . . /. . . There is finally a third authentic portrait of vauban which
corresponds, better than all the others, to the idea given of him by his
written with his expression of cheeky kindness. It is executed at
three pencils and has 0 m. 45 in height by 0 m. 30 wide. We
knows two almost identical replicas. One is in the technical section of engineering accompanied by the following note in 18th century writing: “this precious portrait, drawn from life
by charles le brun, was sold at the sale of the late marshal
d'asfelts, the sale of which was made at the hôtel saint-pouange, rue neuve-
des-petits-charms. » the other belongs to captain carnot, it comes from his great-grandfather lazare carnot, to whom it was given by miss sophie de vauban following the success of eloge de vauban. The attribution of these drawings is obviously false as to the author;
vauban wears the cordon bleu which he only obtained in 1704 and lebrun
died in 1690. Moreover, at the death of lebrun, he would have only had
55 years old and the portrait represents a much older old man. The falsehood
this attribution seems, moreover, to have been recognized; because a strong
beautiful engraving which reproduces this portrait very exactly was executed
by bertonnier, dedicated to count dejean, first inspector general
of the imperial corps of engineers and published in 1813 under the name rigaud. We reproduce it in volume ii (http://gallica. Bnf. Fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6203923q/f31). More: díríase boceto de la cabeza de vauban para el cuadro: https://commons. Wikimedia. Org/wiki/image:vauban_picture. Jpg. Al parecer "we know that rigaud had the habit of separately studying the heads of the characters whose portraits he painted in small easel paintings which he then transferred to the body of the large painting where the costume had been studied separately. " source: http://gallica. Bnf. Fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k62074571/f136 note 2. Date: after 1704. Dimensions: height: 49.8 cm (19.6 in); width: 32.5 cm (12.7 in). Medium: pastel, pencil. Collection: Unidentified location. Le Brun - Vauban
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