Scuola Francese, XVIII sec.

Oil painting on canvas

cm. 70x57,5

A) On the reverse of the canvas and on the central crosspiece of the frame: "Messire de Saint-André / de Lasbordes Capitaine / an Regiment d'Infanterie / de landes / fait a Huningue / le 20 aout 1723". B) On the reverse of the canvas and on the central crosspiece of the frame: "Messire Joseph Jean [...] de Labordes / Capitaine an Regiment d'Infanterie de landes. Fait a Huningue 1723". The Raymond family, lords of the Castle of Lasbordes belonged to an ancient nobility of strong military tradition. The two portraits were made in Huningue, in Alsace, in 1723; one of the two aristocrats portrayed is Jean Joseph Aimeric Raymond de Lasbordes, Knight of St. Louis, Lieutenant Colonel of the Regiment of the Landes, the other could be either Jean Francois or Raymond Nicolas Raymond de Lasbordes, both his brothers and both officers of the same Regiment of the Landes as well as Knights of St. Louis.