Charles-Claude Flahaut de la Billaderie
Charles-Claude Flahaut de la Billaderie, comte d'Angiviller (1730–1809) was the director of the Bâtiments du Roi, a forerunner of a minister of fine arts in charge of the royal building works, under Louis XVI of France, from 1775. Through Flahaut, virtually all official artistic patronage flowed.
Portrait by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, ca. 1763 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
His portrait by Joseph-Siffred Duplessis, 1779, is conserved in the Musée du Louvre.
In 1784, he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.[1]
After the Revolution he was accused of mishandling public property and emigrated, settling in Hamburg, where he died in 1809.
References
- Jacques Silvestre de Sacy, 1953. Le Comte d'Angiviller, dernier directeur général des Bâtiments du Roi, Paris, Éditions d'histoire et d'art, Plon, Collection ″Ars et historia″
- Jean de Viguerie, 2003. Histoire et dictionnaire du temps des Lumières. 1715-1789, Paris, Robert Laffont, collection Bouquins. ISBN 2221048105
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