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CHARLES (DE) CHATILLON (FRENCH, 1777-1844)
Lot 343

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

Closed28 November 2012

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GBP 9,375

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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

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

Specialist note

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.