The person portrayed is sitting with a plan of a gallery in the louvre, the buildings of which he planned to use for a 'museum' after the royal family no longer used this for housing or anything else. Here the crown's art treasures were to be collected, and a 'galerie des grands hommes' was to be set up. Only the french republic had to really realize his thoughts. Around the neck angiviller wears ss. Cross of the order of maurice & lazare, on the coat the cross of the order of saint-louis. Object Type: painting. Genre: portrait. Date: between 1780 and 1789. Dimensions: height: 1,450 mm (57.08 in); width: 1,137 mm (44.76 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Depicted People: Charles-Claude Flahaut de la Billaderie. Collection: Statens Museum for Kunst. Joseph-Siffred Duplessis, Portræt af Charles-Claude Flahaut de la Billarderie comte d'Angiviller 1730-1809 , , KMS7065, Statens Museum for Kunst
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