Early 19th century French school. Portrait of the de Beauvais family, including Ambroise Lambert de Beauvais in artillery officer's uniform, wearing the Lily decoration. Oval gouache. 14 x 17 cm Framed under glass with identification on the back. B.E. Restoration period. Historical background: Ambroise Lambert de Beauvais (b. 1795), admitted to Polytechnique in 1812, graduated to the artillery in 1815. Son of Ambroise de Beauvais and Anne Arnould. He died in 1862 at the time of his son's marriage. He served in Strasbourg in 1819.