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Lady playing ‘Partant pour la Syrie',oil on panel, 14x11,5 cm,signed and dated 'AH Bakker Korff. 68.' (lower left); signed and dated again and annotated 'Le soussigné déclare que/ce tableau représentant/(Partant pour la Syrie)/est peint par lui/Leiden le 16 Mar. '68/AH Bakker Korff' (on a label with a red wax stamp attached to the reverse), ‘Partant pour la Syrie’, Leaving for Syria, was the unofficial national anthem of the Second French Empire, used between 1852 and 1870. The song was inspired by Napoleon's campaign in Egypt and Syria. The music was composed by Hortense de Beauharnais (1783-1837), and the lyrics were written by Alexandre de Laborde (1773-1842), in or around 1807. It represents a chivalric composition of the aspirations of a crusader knight in a style typical of the First French Empire.