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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
L. Réau, Houdon, Sa Vie et son Oeuvre, Paris, 1964, p. 41-2, fig. 186.
H. H. Arnason, The Sculptures of Houdon, New York, 1975, pp. 72, 115 (note 186), pl. 94.
Françoise-Eléonore de Manville (1749-1827) married the Comte Elzéar Joseph de Sabran in 1769. He was fifty years her senior, and died five years later. Three years after his death she became the mistress of Stanislas Jean, Marquis de Boufflers (1738-1815). He was a poet, military officer and knight of the order of Malta. A portion of their intimate correspondence was published in Correspondance inédite de la Comtesse de Sabran et du Chevalier de Boufflers, Paris, 1875. During the Revolution, they emigrated to Brandenburg in northern Germany and lived at Schloss Rheinsberg as guests of their old friend, Prince Heinrich of Prussia, brother of Frederick the Great. In 1797, after Boufflers had renounced his vows as a Knight of Malta, he and the Comtesse de Sabran were married.
Prince Heinrich, who made several visits to Paris in the 1780s and whose own likeness had been sculpted by Houdon in 1784, owned a tinted plaster version of this bust with the red wax cachet d'atelier which is now in the National Gallery, Berlin. Other plasters are in the Thüringer Museum, Eisenach, and the Schlossmuseum, Gotha (Arnason, op. cit.)
L. Réau, Houdon, Sa Vie et son Oeuvre, Paris, 1964, p. 41-2, fig. 186.
H. H. Arnason, The Sculptures of Houdon, New York, 1975, pp. 72, 115 (note 186), pl. 94.
Françoise-Eléonore de Manville (1749-1827) married the Comte Elzéar Joseph de Sabran in 1769. He was fifty years her senior, and died five years later. Three years after his death she became the mistress of Stanislas Jean, Marquis de Boufflers (1738-1815). He was a poet, military officer and knight of the order of Malta. A portion of their intimate correspondence was published in Correspondance inédite de la Comtesse de Sabran et du Chevalier de Boufflers, Paris, 1875. During the Revolution, they emigrated to Brandenburg in northern Germany and lived at Schloss Rheinsberg as guests of their old friend, Prince Heinrich of Prussia, brother of Frederick the Great. In 1797, after Boufflers had renounced his vows as a Knight of Malta, he and the Comtesse de Sabran were married.
Prince Heinrich, who made several visits to Paris in the 1780s and whose own likeness had been sculpted by Houdon in 1784, owned a tinted plaster version of this bust with the red wax cachet d'atelier which is now in the National Gallery, Berlin. Other plasters are in the Thüringer Museum, Eisenach, and the Schlossmuseum, Gotha (Arnason, op. cit.)