Börler, Ecole allemande, du début du XIXe siècle.

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Börler, Ecole allemande, du début du XIXe siècle.
View of the salon of the Count and Countess of Bruges in Berlin around 1840 Watercolour on paper, titled on the back "Salon of my mother in Berlin / donated by Börler". 17.5 x 28.5 cm. Provenance: - Marie Charlotte Apollonie de Bruges (1802-1893), wife of Henri-Michel-Scipion, Marquis de la Rochelambert (1789-1863); - Then by descent until today. It is not impossible that the austere though smiling silhouette of this Prussian officer is Prince Charles of Prussia himself. One recognizes, between the two windows, under a bell, a gilded bronze clock "aux Horaces". It is part of a set of four interior views from the Countess de la Rochelambert, née Apollonie de Bruges (1803-1893), once preserved in a colossal album amicorum constituted by her, retracing, with the help of souvenirs of all kinds (letters, telegrams, portraits in miniatures, drawings, cut-outs, engravings, pious pictures, photographs, locks of hair, etc.), all the episodes of her life. The destiny of Apollonie de La Rochelambert, born into a monarchist family, emigrated during the Revolution, viscerally attached to the royal family of France, is characteristic of these loyal aristocrats, having experienced, in the course of this tormented 19th century, the joys of favours and the torments of exile, at the rhythm of regime changes. Apollonia was born in Berlin, where his father, the Viscount of Bruges, emigrated and married Henriette, Countess of Golowkin. Back in Paris, she befriended Aurore Dupin, the future Georges Sand, at the convent of the English Augustinian Ladies, then in 1822 she married the Marquis de La Rochelambert, commander of cuirassiers of the Royal Guard and ordinary gentleman of the House of King Charles X. The young couple lived at the Domaine de Montretout in Saint-Cloud, owned by the bride's family, and their children had the Duke of Bordeaux as a playmate. In 1830, when the July Revolution brought the Duke of Orléans to the throne of the rioters
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