CURIOSITES. BERNARD-FRANCK Collection. "Artilleur de la Garde à cheval, quartier-maitre de la Marine et colonel de Dragons bavarois au service de la France, 1er Empire period". 3 hand-painted cardboard cut-out silhouettes, pasted on a landscape background, 2 with movable arms, 55 X 52, 33 X 21, 34 X 21 cm, on the back, labels "collection Bernard Franck". ABE (the artilleryman, whose saber blade is missing, and part of the frame rod are missing) According to certain sources, these silhouettes come from a fairground shooting range set up on the esplanade des Invalides around 1830-1850.
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