Portrait Of Madame Campan, Miniature On Ivory, Anonymous Author

Large miniature representing Madame Campan, Marie-Antoinette's first maid, ruined by the revolution, imprisoned by terror and saved by the 9th of Thermidor. In 1794 she opened a boarding house called: Institution Nationale de St Germain. Hortense de Beauharnais was one of its most famous students. She was thus the teacher of a large part of the women of the imperial court. Appointed first director of the house of Ecouen on September 5, 1807, she was dismissed upon the return of the king and died sadly in 1825. Our miniature is close to a painting by the Boilly School reproduced in the special issue of La Cohorte 1968 : Napoleon and the Legion of Honor. Very beautiful period frame with all its gilding.