Charles-Claude Flahaut de la Billaderie, comte d'Angiviller

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Portrait by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, ca. 1763 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Portrait by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, ca. 1763 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Charles-Claude Flahaut de la Billaderie, comte d'Angiviller (1730 — 1810), 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 of France, from 1775. Through him virtually all official artistic patronage flowed.

His portrait by Joseph-Siffred Duplessis, 1779, is conserved at the Musée du Louvre.

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  • 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
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