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JOSEPH DUCREUX (1735–1802), Entourage of
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219
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JOSEPH DUCREUX (1735–1802), Entourage of
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Estimate €1,200 - €1,500
Voluntary lot
Description
JOSEPH DUCREUX (1735–1802), Entourage of
A pair of portraits depicting Nicolas Jacques Papillon d’Auteroche (1727–1794) and his wife Marie-Antoinette Louise Bremont de Voucienne (1732–1792)
Pastels
60.5 x 50 cm
Bears a handwritten inscription on the reverse: ‘1783’
Provenance:
Private collection, Château de Juvigny, near Châlons-en-Champagne.
As a Fermier Général, President-Treasurer of France at the Châlons Finance Office, and Intendant of the Menus-Plaisirs and affairs of the Count of Artois (the future Charles X), Papillon d’Auteroche, together with his brother Papillon de la Ferté—himself Intendant of the King’s Menus-Plaisirs—was at the heart of the artistic scene during the final years of the Monarchy: ceremonies, court performances and the royal family’s leisure activities were placed under the authority of the Intendants of the Menus-Plaisirs.
He was sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Tribunal and guillotined on 8 May 1794 at the Place de la Révolution.
From his marriage to Louise Bremont de Vouciennes, daughter of a treasurer of war for Champagne, five children were born, two of whom survived: a son, Denis, known as Papillon de Sannois (descendant of the Godart de Juvigny family), and a daughter, Jeanne, Countess Jean-Baptiste de Lucay (General Farmer, owner of Valençay, which he sold to Talleyrand), a lady-in-waiting to Empress Marie-Louise, whose daughter Antoinette would marry General Philippe de Ségur.
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