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179 - Jean-Baptiste CLAUDOT DE NANCY (1733–1805)
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Jean-Baptiste CLAUDOT DE NANCY (1733–1805) Estuary landscape Oil on canvas 81.4 x 103 cm. On the reverse, a label with handwritten annotations: “Landscape by Claudot, a painter from Lorraine, who paid for his stays at Clévant with the ‘Good Rolland’ de Malleloy, my great-great-great-grandfather, by painting pictures.” Provenance According to family tradition, it is said to have been given by the artist to Sigisbert, Baron Rolland de Malleloy (1765–1850), owner of Clévant Castle (Custines, Meurthe-et-Moselle), and has been passed down through the family to the present day. A pupil of Jean Girardet (1709–1778), Jean-Baptiste Claudot, known as Claudot de Nancy, was a painter and decorator from Lorraine, descended from the nobility of the robe. He is renowned for his landscapes featuring ancient ruins, in the style of the 17th-century Venetian painters and Hubert Robert. Our painting, whilst characteristic of the artist’s style, also appears to be a touching testament to his circle of friends amongst Lorraine’s high society. Indeed, the oral family tradition still preserved amongst the descendants of the Rolland de Malleloy family recounts the painter’s regular visits, between 1773 and 1779, to Clévant Castle in Custine (Meurthe-et-Moselle), of which he also produced a painted view (private collection, current location unknown). The family’s residence since 1755, when it was acquired from Prince Esterházy, Clévant was a house that enjoyed a fine reputation amongst the literati of Lorraine, as Baron Guerrier de Dumast wrote: “The lovely Clévant, where one enjoys a view such as poets dream of in their idylls. Situated at the confluence of the Meurthe and the Moselle, the estate of Clévant – which belongs to the amiable Rolland de Malleloy family, worthy of inhabiting such cheerful and peaceful surroundings – offers every kind of rural charm, and does so with a harmony perhaps unrivalled anywhere else; as it takes in, both above and below its gardens, on the one hand the forests that crown the mountain, and on the other, the beautiful meadows through which two rivers meander. From the windows of the drawing room, situated halfway up the hillside – or, better still, from the edge of the woods, if one cares to go up there – the eye is treated to a view that seems to have been arranged for one’s pleasure.” (Nancy. History and Panorama. Nancy, Vagner, 1847) The Rollands of Malleloy, related to the Choiseuls, the Vitrys and the Stainvilles, held positions in the senior administration of the Duchy of Lorraine during the 18th century: Provincial Treasurer for Extraordinary War Expenditure in Lorraine and Barrois, Attorney General of Lorraine, Advocate General at the Parliament, member of the Nancy City Council, the Electoral College and the General Council of Meurthe, etc. Among their allied families were: d’Argouges, Armand, Arnoux de Maison Rouge, d’Avezac de Moran, de Banville, Barbey, Baudet, Bazaud, de Beaucorps, de Beaudrap, Bellin, de Benoist de Gentissart, Benoit, Bernard de Courville, Berthe de Pommery, de Beuverand de La Loyère, de Bizemont, Boissinot, Bonamy, Boraud, Boulangé, Bourdeau de Fontenay, Boutet, de Bouvier Mathieu de Vienne, de Bouët du Portal, Boyer, Bramaud du Boucheron, Brault, Bro-Marie-Saint-Germain, de Broc, Burin des Roziers, Bédier, Bérard, de Cacqueray-Valmenier, Carrelet de Loisy, Carroll, de Cassagne de Beaufort de Miramon Fitz-James, de Castelbajac, de Castellane, de Chalon, Chambris, Champigny, Chatelus, Chaudru de Raynal, Chevallier, Choppin de Seraincourt, Conrard, de Cordoüe, Coulon, de Courtois d’Arcollières, du Couëdic de Kerérant, Coûteaux, de Cussy, Daney de Marcillac, Dembinski, Derély, Devezeaux de Lavergne, Didion, Dufer, Dumouchel de Prémare, Durant de La Pastellière-Neuilly, Duret, Durieux, Elouni, England, Errembault du Maisnil et du Coutre, Etcheberry, Ferrer, Fournial, Fournié, Gallineau, van Gaver, Giscard d’Estaing, Gonin, de Gouberville, de Gélis, Génin, d’Halluin, du Hamel de Fougeroux, Haussy, Hervouët, Hervé, Houïtte de La Chesnais, Imbrecht, Jacobé de Haut de Sigy, Jounet, Jullien, Jurkoviak, Karatchentzef, Kress, L’Honneur, de La Fage, de La Tousche, Lachenal, de Lambilly, Laurentin, Law, Le Boulenger de Bizemont, Le Bret, Le Clercq de Lannoy, Le Masson, Le Mercier de Maisoncelle-Vertille de Richemont, Le Provost de Saint-Jean, Lefebvre de Laboulaye, de Lescure Saint-Denis, Lhoyer, de Lille de Loture, Léon, Lütze, Magon de La Villehuchet, de Mahuet, de Malglaive, Margalet de Laval, Mathieu de Vienne, McCallum, Merlin, Merlin d’Estreux de Beaugrenier, de Metz, Meyer, Meynard, Michaud, Michel, de Montesquiou Fezensac d’Artagnan, de Montety, Morel de Lacolombe de Lachapelle d’Apcher, Morot, de Moucheron, Mulsant, N, de Narp, de Nonancourt, Normand, Noël, Palewski, de Panafieu, Parriaux, du Passage, Pasté de Rochefort, Patas d’Illiers, Paul-Cavallier, Peltier, Pin, Pinglet, Pocard du Cosquer de Kerviler, Pommereuil, Ponsoye, Rabasté, Rabault, Racine, Raisson, de Ravinel, Robert, Rolland, Rolland de Malleloy, Rollet, Rousteau, de Scorraille, Semen, Serra, de Sevin, de Solages, Sollogoub, de Tanoüarn, de Tarade de Corbeilles, Tasso de Saxe-Coburg and Braganza, Tillette de Mautort, de Tinguy du Pouët, de Torquat de La Coulerie, Toutée, de Trogoff du Boisguézennec, Trésarrieu-Bésincq, Urvoy de Portzamparc, Vautard, Villeroy de Galhau, Viot, Widmer, Yushchenko.
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