About Anne-Louise Le Jeuneux
Lived 1735 – 1794 (aged 58–59). Anne-Louise Le Jeuneux was a French painter, salonnière and cartographer.
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. 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. 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. Anne-Louise drowned herself in the Seine two years later, upon the decree of the Banishment of Nobles by the Committee of Public Safety.
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Who was Anne-Louise Le Jeuneux?
French artist (died 1794)
When was Anne-Louise Le Jeuneux born?
Anne-Louise Le Jeuneux was born in 1735.
When did Anne-Louise Le Jeuneux die?
Anne-Louise Le Jeuneux died on 16 April 1794.
What was Anne-Louise Le Jeuneux's occupation?
Anne-Louise Le Jeuneux was a painter, salonnière and cartographer.
What nationality was Anne-Louise Le Jeuneux?
Anne-Louise Le Jeuneux was French.
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