Château des Boulayes: A Remarkable Building and Contents

Published on 11 September 2019, by Anne Doridou-Heim

Auction on 18 September 2019 - 11:00 (CEST) - Salle 5-6 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009

The furniture of this Neoclassical building in the Seine-et-Marne département, soon to be sold, illustrates the famous lifestyle forever associated with the expression "à la française".

Viewed from the flight of stairs: four-branched chased gilt bronze lantern, Louis... Château des Boulayes: A Remarkable Building and Contents

Viewed from the flight of stairs: four-branched chased gilt bronze lantern, Louis XVI style, produced in around 1880 by Lacarière Delatour & Cie, h. 117 cm.
Estimate: €6,000/8,000

They married and had… a fine château. Thanks to his union with the daughter of Genoese banker Octave-Pie Giambone (not a happy marriage, since his young wife began to dally with the Prince de Conti, but a highly lucrative one), Claude Bellanger, colonel of the King's Household guards, was able to build a splendid residence on the Boulayes estate, replacing the former 16 th century abode he had just inherited. This handsome, clever young man was not lacking in connections, one being Louis XV's former favourite, Madame du Barry. For this grand project he called upon the architect Nicolas-Claude Girardin (ca. 1749-1786), a name well-known to the family as a few years previously his father-in-law had used the same…

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