Beschrijving
Bust-length portrait of Jean-Baptiste Sylvère Gay, 1st Viscount of Martignac (1778-1832), a moderate royalist French statesman during the Bourbon Restoration 1814-30 under King Charles X.
Steel engraving on wove paper, sheet size 272 x 181 mm., platemark 225 x 148 mm. Engraved by H. Louis, and published in: Cormenin, Louis-Marie de Lahaye. Livre des orateurs. Parijs: L.A. Pagnerre, 1842.
In excellent condition, a tiny spot left of the portrait.