Anne-Rosalie FILLEUL née BOCQUET (Paris 1752-1794) - Lot 7

Anne-Rosalie FILLEUL née BOCQUET (Paris 1752-1794) Jean-Louis SORIN DE BONNE (Valence 1725 - Saint-Christophe-de-Vichy 1781), Ecuyer, chargé des affaires du Roy, greffier de la Capitainerie de Saint-Germain-en-Laye Pastel marouflé on oval canvas 64.5 x 54 cm. Provenance: Sorin de Bonne family in 1909, then by descent Exhibition: Société des pastellistes français. Exposition rétrospective, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 1885, no. 59 Bibliography: Edmond Cleray, Une amie de Mme Vigée-Lebrun - Madame Filleul peintre de portraits, in L'art et les artistes, 1910, p.64, repr. Neil Jeffares, Dictionary of pastellists before 1800, Online edition, no. J.316.149, repr. Rosalie Bocquet was a childhood friend of Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, with whom she took lessons at Gabriel Briard's school. 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 today's Place de Passy), decorated with "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 embezzlement of national property trial known as the "Muette Trial". David, who in his youth had asked for Emilie Vernet's hand in marriage, did nothing to save them.