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).
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).

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