The Cotton Mill, House, and Wharf of Richard-Lenoir at Chantilly
Charles Théverin (Paris 1764 – Paris 1838)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1809 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1403 x 1854 mm
Place of origin
Chantilly
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Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 207794
Caption
The architect referred to in the inscription is Charles-Pierre-Joseph Normand (1765-1840). The complex was built by him for the mill-owner, François-Richard Lenoir, known as Richard Lenoir (1765-1839), at Chantilly. The house was demolished in 1823 and the mill dismantled by the duc d’Aumale after 1830; only the arched gateway still survives. Théverin may have been the son of the building contractor to Louis XVI, Jacques-Jean Théverin, which would help to account for this unusual instance of collaboration between painter and architect. Two similar, but upright, paintings of modern buildings in Paris are in the collection of the Earl of Belmore (ex.collection Geoffrey Gilmour, Paris.).
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Cotton Mill, House and Wharf of Richard-Lenoir at Chantilly, by Charles Théverin (Paris 1764 – Paris 1838), signed bottom right C. Thevenin 1809, inscribed bottom lower right Construit/par/Normand An./1809. An unusual architectural record of the complex built by the Italianate Neo-classical architect Charles-Pierre-Joseph Normand (1765-1840) for the mill owner, Francois Richard, known as Richard-Lenoir (1765-1839) at Chantilly, of which only the arched gateway survives. Charles Thevenin, historical artist and engraver (1764-1838), Prix de Rome 1791, Salon 1793-1833, Member of the Institute, Chavalier de la Legion d'Honheur. Appointed Keeper of the Engravings in the Bibliotheques Royal 1829.
Provenance
Bought by Captian Bambridge through Leggatt Bros. in May 1941 for £ 100, as by C. P.J. Normand (!); bequeathed by Elsie Kipling, Mrs George Bambridge (1896 - 1976), daughter of Rudyard Kipling, to the National Trust together with Wimpole Hall, all its contents and an estate of 3,000 acres
Credit line
Wimpole Hall, The Bambridge Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Charles Théverin (Paris 1764 – Paris 1838), artist