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CHRÉTIEN Gilles-Louis (1745 - 1811) / Fouquet

Physionotrace portrait from end of 18th (1st French Republic or French Directory) of an elegant woman, wife of Commissaire des Guerres Bazin de la Bintinays ,drawn by Fouquet, engraved by Chrétien, Rue Saint Honoré vis-à-vis l'Oratoire n°45 et 133 à Paris

Physionotrace drawn by par Fouquet and engraved by Chrétien, Rue Saint Honoré vis-à-vis l'Oratoire n°45 et 133 à Paris, of Bazin La Batinays's wife, an aristocratic and sophisticated beauty after French Revolution period and before 1st Empire period
Framed 13,2 cm x 10,2 cm - 5,6 cm diameter engraving only
Count Sforza Collection
Nice modern gilt frame - superb proof of Bazin de la Bintinay's wife
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Descriptif

Magnificent portrait, under 1st French Republic or French Directory,  of the wife of Armand Charles Théodore Bazin de la Bintinays, an aristocraty beauty proud oh her elegance.
 
To the military status and power of her husband she answers with her fashionable beauty and power she probably gets on high society.
 
This portrait shows her intelligent, gentle but resolute, and very elegant. Chrétien, the inventor of physionotrace, who engraved this fabulous proof seems like attracted by his character. 
 
Comes from the prestigious Count Sforza collection, a diplomat who fighted Fascism.

Forming with the husband Commissaire des Guerres physionotrace a fantastic portrait of marital success.