Ceremonial dress with gold embroidered cape of the president of the French Directory, 1796. Possibly a portrait of French lawyer, soldier and politician Étienne-François Letourneur, 1751-1817, President du Directoire Executif. Membre du Directoire executive. Handcoloured lithograph by Lorenzo Bianchi and Domenico Cuciniello after Hippolyte Lecomte from Costumi civili e militari della monarchia francese dal 1200 al 1820, Naples, 1825. Italian edition of Lecomte’s Civilian and military costumes of the French monarchy from 1200 to 1820.

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