Oil on canvas based on Michalon's painting, 19th-century frame. Gilded stucco.
Condition: good condition.
Height: Frame 13.5 inches. Frame 19.8 inches.
Width: Frame 9.8 inches. Frame 16.5 inches.
Signed lower left: Clementine 1831.
History Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans “Mazzochi, Italian bandit by Michallon. 1820. In his Voyage en Italie, Stendhal mentioned this bandit who spread terror throughout the Rome region with his accomplice Garbarone and their gang. Cogniet visited the prison with his friend Léopold Robert to paint this colorful character.”