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Maître Brice Pescheteau-Badin
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Anne-Rosalie FILLEUL née BOCQUET (Paris 1752-1794)
Sister Ad…
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Anne-Rosalie FILLEUL née BOCQUET (Paris 1752-1794)
Sister Ad…
See original version (French)
Estimate €2,000 - €3,000
Voluntary lot
Description
Anne-Rosalie FILLEUL née BOCQUET (Paris 1752-1794)
Sister Adélaïde BOURDET, Augustine nun, superior of the Bernardines convent near Royaumont, niece of Mme Sorin de Bonne
Pastel on canvas
60 x 49.5 cm.
Oval shape
Provenance :
Sorin family of Bonn in 1909, then by descent
Daughter of Charles Pompone Bourdet, gentleman servant to H.R.H. the Duc d'Orléans, and Marguerite Françoise Blavet du Marais, according to the label on the reverse of the canvas.
Exhibition:
Société des pastellistes français. Exposition rétrospective, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 1885, n°62
Bibliography :
Edmond Cleray, Une amie de Mme Vigée-Lebrun - Madame Filleul peintre de portraits, in L'art et les artistes, 1910, p.67
X. Salmon, Florilège ; portraits inédits ou mal attribués au temps de Joseph Boze, in G. Fabre, Joseph Boze Portraitiste de l'Ancien Regime à la Restauration, Paris, 2004, fig.6a, p.39
Neil Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, Online edition, no. J.316.127, repr.
Rosalie Bocquet was a youthful friend of Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, with whom she took lessons with Gabriel Briard. She descended from the Hallé and later Bocquet family of painters. She became a member of the Académie de Saint-Luc in 1773. She married Louis Filleul de Besne, concierge at La Muette, an officer in the King's household. He left her a widow in 1788. She lived in the Hôtel de Travers (on what is now the Place de Passy), decorated with the "reformed" furniture from La Muette (Louis XV furniture that Marie-Antoinette no longer wanted).
During the Revolution, she remained loyal to the King and Queen and continued to live there, sharing the premises with Emilie Chalgrin, daughter of Joseph Vernet. In 1794, the two friends were arrested and guillotined in the trial for misappropriation of national property known as the "Muette Trial". David, who in his youth had asked for Emilie Vernet's hand in marriage, did nothing to save them.
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