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238 - Claude Louis DESRAIS, (Paris 1746-1816).
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Claude Louis DESRAIS, (Paris 1746-1816). "General Dumonceau". Watercolour drawing. Pen, black ink, black, grey and brown wash. Framed under glass. Gilt frame. 31 x 27,5 cm. B.E. Jean-Baptiste DUMONCEAU de BERGENDAL, (1760, Brussels - 1821, Forest). Initially destined for the profession of architect, he took his first steps in 1788 as a volunteer in a cavalry regiment. as a volunteer in a cavalry regiment during the Brabant revolution. He became lieutenant-colonel in 1789. After the failure of the revolution in 1790, he entered the service of France. service. He commanded one of the battalions of the Belgian legion. He was at Jemappes and became a brigadier general. Having taken part in General Pichegru's invasion of the United Provinces in 1795, he was promoted to he was promoted to lieutenant-general. In 1796, he commanded the troops protecting the provinces of Groningen, Friesland and Drenthe, before being appointed military governor of The Hague. During the Anglo-Russian landing in Holland in 1799, he was wounded at the battle of Bergen. In 1805, he commanded the battalion under Marshal Mortier. After the transformation of the Batave Republic into the Kingdom of Holland, over which reigned by Louis Bonaparte in 1806, General Dumonceau became Councillor of State and Marshal of Holland. He regularly commanded Dutch troops in the Napoleonic Wars. After the annexation of Holland by France in 1810, Dumonceau was made a Count of the Empire by Napoleon I in 1811, then Count of Bergendal. He took part in the 1813 campaign and was taken prisoner at Dresden with Marshal Gouvion-Saint-Cyr, until Napoleon's abdication in April 1814. He returned to the Netherlands in 1815, became aide-de-camp to William I and member of parliament for South Brabant in the Second Chamber of the States General of the Netherlands from 1820 until his death. He was nicknamed the "spotless general" by his soldiers because of his probity. Claude Louis DESRAIS, a pupil of François Casanova, he worked mainly as a draughtsman. draughtsman. We owe him drawings for special occasions, such as the draft engravings for the wedding of the Dauphin and Marie-Antoinette, or historical drawings historical drawings of the wars of the Revolution and the Empire. He was also illustrator of fashionable poems. It is above all his series on fashion, most often brown wash, that brought him fame, particularly the illustrations for Costumes for Costumes français de la Galerie des modes published in 1778 or 1787.
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About the sale The Empire at Fontainebleau - Second day
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Auction time 06/21/2026 at 10:30 AM
Lot description modified on 06/10/2026 at 9:22 AM
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