FRENCH SCHOOL OF THE 19th CENTURY Portrait... - Lot 46 - Osenat

FRENCH SCHOOL OF THE 19th CENTURY Portrait of the Major General, Count Lauberdière (1759 - 1837) Oil on canvas Wooden frame and gilded stucco with palmettes 65 x 55 cm Provenance: Private collection Biography: Louis-François-Bertrand du PONT d'AUBEVOYE, Count of LAUBERDIERE, born on October 27, 1759 at the Château de l'Auberdière (formerly Lauberdière), a property located in Anjou, more precisely in the parish of Bocé, today a delegated commune of Baugé-en-Anjou, where he died on February 8, 1837, is a French general officer and politician. He participated in the War of Independence of the United States. He was appointed on 9 thermidor year XI, to represent the department of Maine-et-Loire in the Legislative Body. He was then called Dupont-Lauberdière. He left the assembly the following year, fought in Poland in the ranks of the Grand Army and was seriously wounded at Deppen: his conduct in this affair earned him the decoration of the Legion of Honor and the rank of brigadier general on February 12, 1807. On June 3, 1808 he was made a baron of the Empire. The same year, on February 18, he was returned to the Legislative Corps by virtue of a new act of the Senate, where he remained until 1812. After having taken part in the Spanish War, during which he commanded the place of Madrid, assisted to a great number of engagements, was governor of the provinces of Leon, Zamora and Toro, he was again employed in Westphalia in 1812, received a command in the 32nd military division in 1813, whose headquarter was Hamburg, blew up the bridges of Haya de Nieubourg, and took Bremen from the Russians. Then he led the retreat to Wesel after the battle of Leipzig. The insurrection of the Hanseatic countries of Westphalia and Holland called General du Pont-d'Aubevoye to the banks of the Yssel and the Rhine. Allied to the Restoration, he was promoted to lieutenant-general on August 23, 1814, and commander of the Legion of Honor. Elected on May 23, 1815, member of the Chamber of the Hundred Days by the great college of the department of Maine-et-Loire, he returned to his lands after the session of this legislature. He was admitted to retirement on January 1, 1816.