École française d’époque Restauration. Portrait... Lot 34

École française d’époque Restauration. Portrait of Jeanne-Louise-Henriette Campan (1752-1822). Oval miniature painted with gouache, monogrammed and dated "GC / 1827", representing her in front, wearing a ribboned lace bonnet, on a background of blue and orange tones. In its rectangular burrwood frame decorated at the corners with acorns and foliage in chased gilt bronze. On the back the mention in ink "Mrs Campan Director of the education house of the Legion of Honor in Ecouen". H. 6,1 x W. 5,2 cm. Frame : H. 12 x W. 10,5 cm. History Madame Campan, born Henriette Genet on October 2, 1752 in Paris and died on March 16, 1822 in Mantes, was a particularly well-known educator because of her presence at the French court for more than two decades, mainly with the dauphine and later queen Marie-Antoinette. At the age of fifteen, she was already at Versailles as a reader for the youngest daughters of Louis XV. Narrowly escaping the Terror during the Revolution, she successfully founded a private institution for young girls a few days after the fall of Robespierre (July 27, 1794). Then, in 1805, Napoleon I placed her at the head of the educational house of the Legion of Honor, in Écouen. Deprived of this job by the Restoration, she was considered too close to the Bonaparte family to return in grace to the court of Louis XVIII. This distinguished woman was especially interested in the education of women, in training mothers. She also worked, as superintendent of the house of Écouen, to train future female teachers, even wishing to establish Écouen as a "women's university".