Rosalie Filleul

Rosalie Filleul
Self-portrait by Rosalie Filleul, circa 1775
Born
Anne Rosalie Bocquet Filleul

1752 (1752)
Paris, France
Died(1794-06-24)June 24, 1794
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Known forPainting
Spouse
(m. 1777; died 1788)

Rosalie Filleul (1752 – June 24, 1794) was a French pastellist and painter. She was born in Paris, and was concierge of the Château de la Muette. Although she initially supported the French Revolution, she nevertheless became disillusioned by its excesses and mourned the execution of Louis XVI. Somewhat 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.[1]

  1. ^ Profile of Jeanne-Angélique Boquet at the Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800.