ADJUDENT-MAJOR CAPTAIN OF THE IMPERIAL GUARD INFANTRY, First Empire, circa 1808-1809 : miniature portrait. 26650
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JEAN LE CLERCQ CAPTAIN ADJUDENT-MAJOR IN THE 8th CUIRASSIERS regiment, First Empire, circa 1808-1809: miniature portrait. 19334
Miniature round shape D 6.6 cm (at sight).
Watercolor and gouache.
Bust portrait representing an officer in a dark blue coat with a collar with daffodil piping (8th regiment), he wears his breastplate with his helmet under his arm, his first type helmet with black horsehair puff.
Presented in a brass rod frame D 8.2 cm, under bedside glass, and in a wooden bowl frame, H 13.2 cm, width 13.6 cm.
An even handwritten label is stuck to the back of the frame “Antoine Jean Le Clercq Captain Adjutant Major of Cuirassiers, Knight of the Legion of Honor”.
France.
First Empire.
Good condition, miniature split vertically on its right side.
BIOGRAPHY :
Antoine Jean LECLERCQ born June 22, 1775 in Paris department of Seine.
Soldier in the 1st battalion of Paris then in the 106th regiment from September 8, 1792 until January 15, 1798, as a gunner, where he besieged Kell and Mainz.
Incorporated into the 8th Cuirassier Regiment on May 28, 1799.
Brigadier-fourrier on October 18, 1800.
Chief Marshal on April 12, 1802.
Non-commissioned warrant officer on January 21, 1803.
Lieutenant by decree on January 27, 1807.
Adjutant-Major lieutenant on April 26, 1807. On June 10 at the Heinsberg affair in Prussia, he had a horse killed under him and received a large commission caused by the violence of the fall he suffered.
Captain on October 26, 1808. On May 21, 1809 at the Esling affair his horse was killed in the middle of a charge, he received after being dismounted, seven saber blows, and was left for dead on the battlefield , it was only in a second charge that the regiment executed that we managed to withdraw it from the enemy. These injuries result in the total loss of the right eye and part of the movements of the lower jaw.
Has done all the campaigns since his entry into the service.
Knight of the Legion of Honor on October 1, 1807.
Miniature round shape D 6.6 cm (at sight).
Watercolor and gouache.
Bust portrait representing an officer in a dark blue coat with a collar with daffodil piping (8th regiment), he wears his breastplate with his helmet under his arm, his first type helmet with black horsehair puff.
Presented in a brass rod frame D 8.2 cm, under bedside glass, and in a wooden bowl frame, H 13.2 cm, width 13.6 cm.
An even handwritten label is stuck to the back of the frame “Antoine Jean Le Clercq Captain Adjutant Major of Cuirassiers, Knight of the Legion of Honor”.
France.
First Empire.
Good condition, miniature split vertically on its right side.
BIOGRAPHY :
Antoine Jean LECLERCQ born June 22, 1775 in Paris department of Seine.
Soldier in the 1st battalion of Paris then in the 106th regiment from September 8, 1792 until January 15, 1798, as a gunner, where he besieged Kell and Mainz.
Incorporated into the 8th Cuirassier Regiment on May 28, 1799.
Brigadier-fourrier on October 18, 1800.
Chief Marshal on April 12, 1802.
Non-commissioned warrant officer on January 21, 1803.
Lieutenant by decree on January 27, 1807.
Adjutant-Major lieutenant on April 26, 1807. On June 10 at the Heinsberg affair in Prussia, he had a horse killed under him and received a large commission caused by the violence of the fall he suffered.
Captain on October 26, 1808. On May 21, 1809 at the Esling affair his horse was killed in the middle of a charge, he received after being dismounted, seven saber blows, and was left for dead on the battlefield , it was only in a second charge that the regiment executed that we managed to withdraw it from the enemy. These injuries result in the total loss of the right eye and part of the movements of the lower jaw.
Has done all the campaigns since his entry into the service.
Knight of the Legion of Honor on October 1, 1807.
Reference :
19334
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