EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY FRENCH SCHOOL.
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EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY FRENCH SCHOOL.
"Portrait of the Maréchale Brune, wearing a pearl diadem.
Oil on canvas
64 x 31 cm.
Gilded frame with palmettes (chips).
A.B.E.
Biography :
Angélique Nicole PIERRE (1766-1829)
Coming from a modest background, she married the future marshal on 29 pluviôse year IV (18 February 1796).
After the assassination of the marshal during the White Terror, she led an extremely pugnacious and courageous fight to rehabilitate the memory of her husband, as evidenced by her letter to the King:
"I demand justice, Sire
justice for the murder of my husband,
justice for the outrage done to his corpse,
justice for the insult done to his memory by those who dared to accuse him of suicide.
This justice, I ask it to the King,
I ask it of his ministers,
I ask it of the Chambers,
I ask it of the whole nation.
Provenance:
-Castle of Saint Just Sauvage
-then private collection.
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