Publication Date: 1780
Seller: The Online Portrait Gallery, Den Haag, Netherlands
No Binding. Condition: Good. Portrait of Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette. Born 6 September 1757 in Chavaniac, France. Died 20 May 1834 in Paris, France. Stipple engraving by Mathias de Saillieth (1749-1791), c. 1780. Good condition. Mounted on a later album leaf. Verso: blank. Dimensions: 146 x 89 mm. Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette was Aristocrat, Major general, Lieutenant-General, Military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War, Key figure in the French Revolution of 1789 and the July Revolution of 1830, Member of the Estates General, and Commander of American Revolutionary troops. c. 1780. Print.