Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Chevalier d'Eon NPG 6937

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Thomas Stewart, after Jean Laurent Mosnier

This painting of the celebrated soldier, diplomat and fencer, Chevalier d’Éon (Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d' Éon de Beaumont) (1728-1810), was an important acquisition for the National Portrait Gallery as it is the earliest representation of a transgender person in the Collection. D’Éon was respected internationally after playing a key role in peace negotiations that ended the Seven Years’ War, and later as a professional fencer, performing for George, Prince of Wales, though always fighting in women’s attire. This portrait is an unprecedented... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.