Adolf Ulrich WERTMÜLLER (Stockholm 1751-Wilmington,... - Lot 50 - Audap & Associés

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Adolf Ulrich WERTMÜLLER (Stockholm 1751-Wilmington,... - Lot 50 - Audap & Associés
Adolf Ulrich WERTMÜLLER (Stockholm 1751-Wilmington, USA 1811) Portrait of Lise Cardon, mother of Madame Campan Oval canvas, signed on the left: "Wertmüller . S / in Paris 1785." (Accidents, lifting and missing.) Wooden frame and gilded stucco from the Louis XVI period Height : 65 cm 65 cm ; Width : 54 cm Daughter of the receiver of the estates of the Prince of Chimay and of an Irish woman, Marie-Anne-Louise, known as Lise Cardon, married Edme Genet in 1752, who a few months later became secretary-interpreter at the Foreign Affairs. Henriette Genet (Madame Campan), their eldest daughter, was a reader for the daughters of Louis XV, Marie-Antoinette's chambermaid and then director of the Legion of Honour's educational centre. She left to posterity her Memoirs, which depict a fascinating fresco of the life of the Court at the end of the Ancien Régime. Edmé Genet and Lise Cardon were also the parents of Edmond Genet (1763-1834) who was to make history by becoming the first French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution (1793). Lise Cardon is portrayed here by Adolf-Ulrich Wertmüller, a painter of the Bordeaux business bourgeoisie who belonged to the promising group of Swedish artists in France, along with his uncle Alexandre Roslin, who was especially active in Paris, and Pehr-Eberhard Cogell, who lived in Lyon. Adolf Ulrich Wertmüller was a court painter and a member of the Swedish Academy of Fine Arts. He was the son of the pharmacist and court physician Alexander Wertmüller. His most prestigious models include Queen Marie-Antoinette, whose full-length portrait he painted with her children in Trianon Park (Salon of 1785), and President George Washington (1795). Lise Cardon's family commissioned Wertmüller to paint other portraits, notably those of the couple's second daughter, Adélaide-Henriette Auguiè as a milkmaid (1787) and of their grandson Henri Bertholet-Campan with his dog (1786). Expert : Cabinet Éric TURQUIN
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