Alphonse de Cailleux
| Alphonse de Cailleux | |
|---|---|
| Born | Alexandre Achille Alphonse de Cailleux 31 December 1788 Rouen (Normandie, France) |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Paris (Île-de-France, France) |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Museum Director |
| Awards |  Legion of Honour - Knight Legion of Honour - Officer (1826) |
Alphonse de Cailleux, in full Alexandre Achille Alphonse de Cailleux[1] but numerous variations exist[2] (31 December 1788 – 24 May 1876) was a painter, connoisseur and arts administrator who became director of the Musée du Louvre and all the royal museums of France. Under the Bourbon Restoration. he was attached to the reconstituted royal household (maison du roi).
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Early life
Cailleux was born on 31 December 1788 in Rouen (Normandie, France).
Employment
As secrétaire général des Musées royaux, he shared a carriage with Charles Nodier,[3] Jean Alaux and Victor Hugo at the coronation of Charles X in 1825. In 1836, he was appointed directeur adjoint at the Louvre, where he assisted the increasingly debilitated Louis Nicolas Philippe Auguste de Forbin. Upon Forbin's death he was appointed directeur général des beaux-arts, a precursor of the position of Minister of Fine Arts.
In 1845, he was elected a membre libre (not being an artist himself) of the Académie des Beaux-Arts of the Institut de France. As revolt erupted and Louis Philippe abdicated in February 1848, Cailleux, a confirmed royalist, resigned his posts.
Death
On 24 May 1876, Cailleux died in Paris (Île-de-France, France).
Awards
He was a Knight of the Legion of Honour, but was promoted to Officer by decree on 17 May 1826.[1] His portrait,[4] attributed to Georges Rouget, is at the Musée de Versailles.[5][6]
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- ↑ With Nodier and Baron Isidore-Juste-Séverin Taylor he collaborated that same year, writing the section on Normandy in Taylor's Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l'ancienne France (Paris: Firmin Didot) 1825. Ingres mentioned it when he sent a letter of recommendation to introduce Cailleux to his patron Jacques-Louis Leblanc at Florence, 16 March 1825 (Hans Naef and Claus Virch, "Ingres to M. Leblanc: An Unpublished Letter" The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin New Series, 29.4 [December 1970], pp. 178-184).
- ↑ Under the name Achille Alexandre Alphonse, vicomte de Cailleux
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