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.

• 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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