Paper folder (blue) labelled 'Julien Le Blant, Le Bataillon Carré, Affaire de Fougères'

 
Containers:
Box 2 (MS Acc22.020)
Component identifier:
File 36
Content Summary:
The file contains correspondence (1982–3) between Francis Ribemont (Conservation des Musées, La Roche Sur Yon, Vendée), and André Barbe (French Consul General, Sydney), Francis Josephe (French Cultural Attaché), Virginia Spate (Director, Power Institute of Fine Arts, University of Sydney) and Renée Free (Senior Curator, Art Gallery of New South Wales) relating to the location of a painting by Julien Le Blant, Le Bataillon Carré, Affaire de Fougères 1793, once owned by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, but sold in 1959. In 1986, Edward Duyker used a photograph of Le Blant's painting of the Vendée War as an illustration on page 27 of his anthology Mauritian Heritage. Duyker's maternal great-great-great-grandfather, Pierre-Henry Lionnet (1773–1829) was born in the Vendée and took part in the Vendée War. There's also copies of correspondence where Monsieur Ribemont's friend Bernard Gendrillon (1929–2020), the former mayor of La Châtaigneraie in the Vendée and president of the town's local historical circle, during the latter's visit to Sydney in 1986 attempted to trace the purchaser of the painting. In June 2020, Duyker learned that Le Blant's painting now hangs in the library of Brigham Young University in Utah. He informed Bernard Gendrillon shortly before his death. The file contains a copy of BYU's 'art in the library' page for the painting https://art.lib.byu.edu/collection/le-bataillon-carre-affaire-de-fougeres-1793-square-battalion/ and a copy of Duyker's short article on the resolution of the mystery in Reaching Out (Sutherland Shire Historical Society), newletter no. 3, July 2020, p. 5
Immediate source of acquisition:
This collection was acquired from Edward Duyker in multiple instalments from 1996 to 2022.
Subjects:
Exploration
History

Access and use

Parent Restrictions:
Access conditions may apply to this collection, please refer to the collection's catalogue record for further information (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1391827).
Parent Terms of Access:
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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