18th century French school Portrait of Simon MARTIN de VAUGINE, Commissaire Ordinaire des Guerres from 1743 to 1775, depicted half-body, wearing the Order of Saint Louis, right hand on a book. Pastel drawing on paper, mounted on canvas. The subject's name on a cartel fixed to the gilded wood frame with pearl frieze (wear and minor missing parts). 56.5 x 46.5 cm. Some wear and stains. Provenance : Normandy Auction, Rouen, December 18, 2016, lot 30. Bibliography: JEFFARES, Neil, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, 2006, described as "Simon MARTIN DE VAUGINE, commissaire général des guerres 1743-75 : Éc. fr.". Simon MARTIN de VAUGINE, was born in 1715 in Epineau-les-Voves, Burgundy, and died in 1783. Chevalier de Saint Louis.