Charles Claude Flahaut, Count of Angiviller
French politician (1730–1809)
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Charles Claude Flahaut, Count of 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, from 1775. Through Flahaut, virtually all official artistic patronage flowed.
His portrait by Joseph Duplessis, exhibited at the Salon of 1779, is conserved in the Louvre.
In 1784, he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.[1]
After the French 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
