Pair of HST Noble Portraits General Lérivint Fleury Bedane Louis Tocqué 18th century

Pair of oil on canvas portraits of a quality couple, the in-laws of General d'Empire Gabriel Lérivint*, the Fleury Bedane couple, parents of the General's wife (Jeanne-Anne Fleury Bedane, 1752-1822), attributed to Louis Tocqué** peintre du roi, in carved and gilded 18th century wood frames. These paintings are in good condition, with a few accidents to the frames (a few missing pieces: we have the pieces that need to be glued back together). The frames are not identical. These paintings are not signed, but the back of the woman's painting is marked "Jeanne Anne Joubert Bonnaire Epouse de M. Fleury Bedane belle mère du général Lérivint" and "peint par Louis Tocqué peintre du roi, membre de l'Académie de Peinture en 1731, né à Paris en 1696, mort au Louvre en 1772". They can therefore be attributed to this painter, by virtue of their quality and subject. M. Fleury Bedane is holding a letter marked "M. Michel Leucque négociant à Amsterdam" These paintings come from the sale of part of the estate of General d'Empire Lérivint.
Please note: the frames are damaged and missing, and pieces of both frames have come off (we have the pieces). The two paintings have been re-finished. The canvases have been cleaned. Old wormholes on stretchers. Take a good look at the photos. *Gabriel Jacques Lérivint (1741-1823) General during the French Revolution and the First Empire. He was the father of cavalry colonel Joseph Charles Lerivint (1776-1812). Young Gabriel Lerivint joined the King's army at an early age. He enjoyed a successful military career before the revolutionary wars, gradually climbing the military ranks. Starting out as a junior officer, he went on to become lieutenant-colonel, then colonel in the cavalry. On January 10, 1794, Gabriel-Jacques Lérivint was promoted to brigadier general by the people's representatives of the Rhine and Moselle armies. Attached to the division of the young General Championnet, in the Armée de la Moselle, Lérivint joined his division on June 10, 1794. He served at Liège on August 10, 1794, then at Fleurus on June 26 of the same year. On July 2, 1794, Lérivint was assigned to the Armée de Sambre-et-Meuse, where he replaced General Dubois. He took command of the cavalry on March 24, 1795. After a first reform in February-September 1797, Lérivint was appointed commander of the Sambre-et-Meuse department, then of the Dyle department and finally of the Deux-Nèthes department, from 1799 to 1802. He was appointed Chevalier de l'Empire by Napoleon I in 1810. He was made a Knight of the Royal and Military Order of Saint Louis. Retired field marshal in Saumur. He served in every campaign from the reign of Louis XV to the Empire. Gabriel Lerivint died on June 14, 1823 in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, at the ripe old age of 82.
The Generals of the Empire fought alongside Emperor Napoleon I in his many campaigns. Their loyalty, fidelity and skills enabled most of them to climb the military ladder, but also to become members of the wealthy French nobility. The collections of these families of Generals of the Empire are therefore particularly rich and sought-after. **Louis Tocqué (1696- 1772) Famous French portrait painter. His father, a mediocre portrait painter, intended Tocqué to follow in his footsteps. Orphaned at the age of 10, young Louis was taken in by Nattier, who had him copy portraits by the greatest masters of the genre. Tocqué thus acquired a beautiful, broad style, and succeeded in giving his copies the same perfection as the originals. Tocqué, who had also studied with Nicolas Bertin, a much-vaunted artist of his time, settled, like his father-in-law, on the portrait genre, while avoiding the whimsicality and emphasis of the latter, known for mixing realism and fantasy by inserting mythological characters into his works. His reputation soon spread, he acquired vogue, and was esteemed by the most skilful artists of his time, notably Musse and Boucher.Agréé à l'Académie in 1731, on presentation of the "Famille de Peirenc de Moras", he was received at the beginning of 1734, with three-quarter portraits of Louis Galloche and Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (Louvre). In 1739, he was commissioned to paint the portrait of the Dauphin, the year after that of Queen Marie Leczinska. Tocqué is at Versailles with portraits of the Marquis de Matignon, Gresset in red habit, de Tournehem, the Marquis de Marigny, one of the finest of the group, the full-length portraits of Maria Theresa, infanta of Spain, very pompous, and of Empress Elisabeth of Russia, this one unfinished. He is also well represented in Dijon, Orléans, Nancy and, with the portrait of M. de Saint-Florentin, in the Musée de Marseille. From 1737 to 1759, Tocqué exhibited at almost all the Salons, without seeing his success wane. In 1757, the tsa

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