CHARLES (DE) CHATILLON (FRENCH, 1777-1844)

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CHARLES (DE) CHATILLON (FRENCH, 1777-1844)
Three children in a landscape: a girl, seated, in white dress with blue sash, gold necklace and earring, holding a garland of flowers, a girl in pink dress with blue sash and ochre fingerless gloves, coral necklace and gold earring, arranging the flowers in the wreath, standing behind her a young boy in red waistcoat, a butterfly resting on his hand
signed on the tree trunk 'Chatill on a Ju' (lower right)
on ivory
3 5/8 in. (92 mm.) diam., gilt-metal frame

Provenance

Christie's, Geneva, 12 November 1975, lot 112.

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Lot Essay

It has been suggested that the sitters may be the three eldest children of Lucien Bonaparte, Principe di Canino (1775-1840), who was a friend of the artist and younger brother of Napoleon Bonaparte. His eldest daughter Charlotte was born in 1795, followed by Christine in 1798 and a son, Charles Lucien, was born in 1803. A similar double-portrait of children by Châtillon is illustrated in L. Capon, Il Museo Napoleonico, Rome, 1986, p. 20.

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