Louis-marie Sicardi - Senior Officer Of The Hundred Swiss Regiment Of The Household Of The King

Oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right: "Sicardi 1816 à... 72" (at 72 years old): Portrait of a senior officer of the Hundred Swiss regiment of the Maison du Roi (major or captain), in blue coat with red piping, gold buttons embossed with a pomegranate, red collar embroidered in gold trimmings with palm trees and natural lilies, bordered with a wand decorated with a row of pearls, lieutenant-colonel epaulettes in trimmings gold, large twisted fringes, silver crests embroidered with a flaming grenade; he is decorated with the knight's cross of the order of the Legion of Honor and the Lys of the model known as the "King's bodyguards"; beautiful leafy, gilded frame; 56 x 46.5 cm. (Some restorations). Restoration period. Good condition. SICARD Louis Marie, known as SICARDI, born in Avignon on August 2, 1743 + in Paris on July 18, 1825. Painter and miniaturist, he obtained commissions from the royal family around 1772 and became painter to the Maison du Roi in 1779; he exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1791. He is among the ten best painters on the list drawn up on 23 Fructidor Year VIII by the Minister of the Interior, at the request of the First Consul. In 1816, SICARDI was a “portrait painter” at 55 rue Saint-André des Arts. Under the Restoration, he was named knight of the Legion of Honor on September 11, 1814.