Émile-Jean-Horace Vernet

Frédéric Marquis de Talhouët-Roy (1788-1842), Château du Lude, Sarthe, acquired directly from the above.
Auguste Élisabeth Joseph Bon-Amour de Talhouët-Roy (1819-1884), his son, by descent
René François Honoré Marie de Talhouët-Roy (1855-1948), his son, by descent
Frédéric Comte de La Rochefoucauld (b. 1955), by descent
Sale: Drouot, 30 March 1994 (by Mes Gros et Delettrez)
His sale: Christie's, New York, 22 May 1997, lot 76
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Paris, Salon, 1819, no. 1166 (possibly, as Revue du 2^e. régiment des grenadiers à cheval de la garde-royale)
Paris, Exposition de M H Vernet, 1822, no. 21
Paris, Exposition Universelle, 1889, Arts militaires, no. 106

Paris, Salon, 1819, no. 1166 (possibly).
E. de Jouy and A. Jay, Salon de M. H. Vernet, 1822, pp. 101-103.
C. d'Arge, "Biographe de M.H. Vernet," Le Monde Illustré (January 24, 1863): p. 55.
Exposition Universelle, Paris 1889, Arts militaires, p. 167, no. 106.
A. Dayot, Les Vernet: Joseph, Carle, Horace, Paris 1898, p. 198 (under May 1818 as Le portrait de Colonel Talhouët).
Claudine Renaudeau, Horace Vernet 1789-1863. Chronologie et Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, PhD dissertation, Paris 1999, no. 91 (as Le colonel Talhouët donnant des ordres).