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FALIZE FRÈRES Design sketch for General Lyautey’s sword.
See original version (French)
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FALIZE FRÈRES Design sketch for General Lyautey’s sword.
See original version (French)
Estimate €1,000 - €1,500
Voluntary lot
Description
FALIZE FRÈRES
Design sketch for General Lyautey’s sword.
Pencil, watercolour, gouache, ink on card stock. Illustrative annotations.
Dimensions: approx. 31 x 24 cm.
Unsigned. On the reverse: dated 23 June 1914, numbered, iconographic annotations.
The commission:
This sword was probably commissioned for Marshal Hubert Lyautey’s election to the Académie Française in 1912.
Hubert Lyautey (1854–1934) pursued a military career, notably abroad (Hanoi, Madagascar), where he served as a cavalry officer. He then oversaw the establishment of the Moroccan Protectorate and became the country’s first Resident-General. He was elected to the Académie Française in 1912. He was appointed Minister of War during the First World War.
See original version (French)
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