PIERRE MATHURIN PETRAUD | Russian officers and Circassian cossacks at a military outpost during the Caucasus campaign, possibly with a self-portrait of the artist sketching in his book

Private collection, Palm Beach, Florida;

Anonymous sale, North Carolina, Brunk Auctions, 9 January 2011, lot 594 (as Attributed to Pierre Mathurin Petraud).

Pierre Mathurin Petraud trained as a pupil of Rodrigue Perriere. He was an active painter in the Bordeaux region, but also travelled extensively throughout the Middle East and Asia Minor. The present painting depicts a scene from the Caucasus Campaign of 1734-35 - the last major military operation during the Ottoman–Persian War of 1730-1735.