![]() ![]() In her memoirs, Vigée Le Brun stated that she had painted the marquise and the bailli three times, in 1788, in 1789, and after her return to France. Still Life with a Vase of Flowers, Melon, Peaches, and Grapes by the marquise de Grollier entered The Met's collection in 2022 ( 2022.264). 1742–1828), marquise de Grollier, who was a still-life painter and a friend of Madame Vigée Le Brun and sat to her for a portrait of the same size on panel. ![]() Nevertheless he enjoyed a long-term relationship with Charlotte Eustache Sophie de Fuligny Damas (ca. Membership of the order obligated him to celibacy. He was also a bailli, or bailiff, of the order of the Knights of Malta, an administrative and quasi-religious role. Crussol-Florensac was named maréchal-de-camp in 1784 by Louis XVI, who awarded him the order of the Saint-Esprit. In 1773 he was appointed captain of the guard to the comte d’Artois (1757–1836), grandson of Louis XV and a future king as Charles X. Emmanuel joined the army in 1761 and fought in Germany during the Seven Years’ War. ![]() Emmanuel de Crussol-Florensac belonged to the ancient family of the Crussols, ducs d’Uzès, but to a junior branch of which the last survivor was his brother, Henri Charles, baron de Crussol (died 1818). ![]()
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