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Louise Cochelet (Charleville 1783-1827)
Lot 136 A

Louise Cochelet (Charleville 1783-1827)

View of Mont Blanc

Closed6 December 2012

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GBP 750

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Louise Cochelet (Charleville 1783-1827)
View of Mont Blanc
signed with initials 'L.C.' (lower right) and inscribed and dated 'le [...?] du Mont blanc prise des châlets au dessus d'aix en Savoie 1815' (on the mount)
pencil, brown wash
5¾ x 7¼ in. (14.6 x 18.5 cm.)

Specialist note

As a girl, Louise Cochelet was friends with Elisa and Caroline, the sisters of Napoleon, and with his stepdaughter Hortense de Beauharnais (1783-1837). When Hortense became Queen of Holland, Louise accompanied her as her companion and reader. After the Second Bourbon Restoration in 1815, the women moved together to the Swiss castle of Arenenberg and in 1824 Louise married Denis-Charles Parquin (1786-1845), with whom she settled at the castle of Wolfsberg, overlooking Lake Constance. Her Mémoires sur la reine Hortense et la famille impériale were published after her death, in 1836.