Portrait of General Lazare Hoche (1768-1797), French Republican Army, Commander of the French Forces in Ireland 1797

Engraver F. Lefevre

After Unknown Artist, France, 18th century , French

Title

Date18th century

MediumStipple engraving

Dimensions

Sheet: 36.8 x 22 cm

Credit LineAcquired, by 1901

Object numberNGI.10878

Inscriptionlower right (printed): Fmr Lefevre sculp.

lower centre (printed): HOCHE/Se vend a Paris chez Potrelle, Md. d'Estampes, Rue St. Honoré No.54

lower centre (graphite manuscript): A stable boy made corporal of grenadiers/drove the [Austrians] out of Alsace/defeated the Royalists at Quiberon where/[indecipherable]/Returned from Ireland in disgrace/Commander of the army of the Sambre-et-Meuse/[indecipherable] stopped by the [indecipherable]/[indecipherable]/died at [?] 1797