Charles-Claude Flahaut de la Billarderie

Charles-Claude Flahaut de la Billarderie, 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 of the Comte d'Angiviller by Joseph Duplessis, 1779

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

Notes
  1. "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2020-12-13.


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