Description
painted on ivory, oval, signed to the right hand edge BIRON, 10 x 14cm; sold with a document from Sérurier, as Governor of the Invalides, in 1813, written to the Duc de Feltre, as Minister de Guerre (2)
Footnote
Note: Sérurier joined the French army in 1759 and fought under Napoleon in Italy. He assisted Napoleon in the coup of the 18 Brumaire and was eventually Governor of the Invalides. Here, in March 1814 as the allies reached Paris, Sérurier destroyed the 1,417 enemy flags captured in Napoleon's campaigns.
Sérurier voted for the downfall of Napoleon that April, and was made a peer by Louis XVIII. He joined Napoleon during the Hundred Days and afterwards voted in favour of Ney's death after Waterloo.