Jean-Baptiste Gilles [SEP] date of birth
Jean-Baptiste Gilles
Jean-Baptiste Gilles (or Gille; 1680–1762), known as Colson, was a French painter of portraits in miniature and water-colours. He was born at Verdun, and assumed his mother's surname of Colson, because the theatres of the fairs had brought ridicule upon the name of Gilles. Colson, who was a pupil of Christophe, and a member of the Academy of St. Luke, died in Paris in 1762.
of Fleurus, won by Jean-Baptiste Jourdan over the Austrian forces led by the princes of Coburg and Orange on 26 June 1794. Date : 1837. Oil on canvas, 4.65m by 5.43m.
102. Amédée Emmanuel François Laharpe. Général de division. Killed in the crossing of the River Po. 1796. (Félix Lecomte)
103. Jean Gilles André Robert, général de brigade. Killed at the Battle of Arcole in 1796. (Gois fils)
104. Martial Beyrand, général de