Anne Rosalie Bocquet Filleul (1752–1794),
• Was a French pastellist and painter.
• She was born in Paris.
• Her father, Blaise Bouquet, was the owner of a Bric-à-brac shop and an ornament painter.
• Most of the accounts we have of Filleul are from her best friend and her cousin Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun.
• Filleul and Le Brun were very close and spent a lot of time together.
• In her youth she learned painting from her father.
• At the age of seventeen Filleul was exhibited at the Salon, a great achievement for such a young age.
• Rosalie Filleul married Louis Besne Filleul in 1777, at the age of twenty four.
• Besne was the Superintendent of the royal Chateau of Muette.
• He was much older than Rosalie in age.
• The couple made their home in the Hotel De Travers near Muette.
• Rosalie also attracted the attention of the royal family especially Marie Antoinette, who really liked Muette.
• The royal family gave her several commissions for various portraits.• Although she initially supported the French Revolution, she nevertheless became disillusioned by its excesses and mourned the execution of Louis XVI.
• Indiscreetly, at the height of the Terror, she made arrangements to sell some of the furniture at the Château de la Muette to a secondhand dealer.
• This was reported to the authorities and she was arrested on charges of theft and concealment of biens nationaux – property belonging to the Republic.
• Rosalie Filleul was found guilty and guillotined in 1794, along with her friend Mme Chalgrin, despite the attempted intervention of Chalgrin's brother Carle Vernet.
• Her cousin was the pastellist Jeanne-Angélique Boquet.
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