Anne-Louise Le Jeuneux, sometimes Lejeuneux or Jeuneux, later Baudin de La Chesnaye (died 15 April 1794) was a French painter.
Le Jeuneux is first recorded in 1755, when she produced a map of the night sky over the southern hemisphere for the astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille, after his drawing; this is today in the collection of the Paris Observatory.[1] She also painted his portrait in 1762. The two were evidently close, for he asked after her in a number of his letters home from his expedition to Africa.[2] She was the daughter or sister of a M. Le Jeuneux who kept a cabinet of curiosities at the Hôtel de Chavigny and was acquainted with Benjamin Franklin. Le Jeuneux produced a number of portraits in oils, as well as at least one pastel, dated 1763. She is known to have held a salon. She married André Baudin de La Chesnaye, sometimes Chenaye (1732–1792), a former mousquetaire, chevalier de Saint-Louis, and later commander of the Paris national guard who was among those massacred at the La Force Prison in 1792.[3] Anne-Louise drowned herself in the Seine two years later, upon the decree of the Banishment of Nobles by the Committee of Public Safety.[2]
References
edit- ^ Observatoire de Paris (1755). "Map of the sky of the Southern hemisphere after La Caille's observations".
- ^ a b Ian S. Glass (2013). Nicolas-Louis De La Caille, Astronomer and Geodesist. OUP Oxford. pp. 123–. ISBN 978-0-19-966840-3.
- ^ Profile at the Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800.
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