Gericault Life – Musée français articles
GLM 2019-2022
Les Ruines du Colisée (Ruins of the Colliseum) engraving by Pierre Laurent, one of the partners of Robillard de Péronville & Laurent’s, Musée français, 1803.
This index lists all Géricault Life Magazine articles published on Theodore Géricault’s connection to the Musée français, Louis Robillard de Péronville & Pierre Laurent’s art enterprise. Each entry contains a permanent link to the article which will open in a new window. All articles by Paul A. K. Harper
November 2019, Pierre Laurent Family, First article on Louis-Nicolas-Joseph Robillard de Péronville and Pierre Laurent’s Musée français.
November 2019, Peronville de Barras 1788, Establishes the link connecting Théodore Géricault’s family connections to family of Paul de Barras and other members of the de Barras family in France and France’s colonies.
November 2019, Peronville de Barras Paris 1797, Confirms the arrival of Louis-Nicolas-Joseph Robillard de Péronville and his family in Paris in the summer of 1797.
December 2019, Robillard Peronville & Laurent Acte de Société 1802, Describes the formation of the Louis Robillard de Péronville & Laurent’s Musée français.
December 2019, Pierre Laurent 1791-1802, Family history of Pierre Laurent, his first and second wives, and their children. Pierre Laurent’s first wife was a member of the de Barras family in Marseilles.
January 2020, Titon Laneuville – Musée Français, Confirms that Titon Laneuville, the painter and one of Théodore Géricault’s supporters, owned large and valuable collection of Musée français engravings.
January 2020 – J.B. Caruel – Musée Français, Confirms that Jean-Baptiste Caruel, Théodore Géricault’s closest uncle in Paris, had a large collection of Musée français engravings.
February 2020 – 1803 Musée Français England, One of the first English reviews of the Musée français engravings.
February 2020 –Titon Laneuville Hotel de Longueville, Establishes Titon Laneuville’s connection with the Robillard family at the Hôtel de Longueville.
March 2020 – 1812 Robillard Library, Confirms that Jacques-Florent Robillard, a key Géricault relation, owned a large collection of Musée français engravings.
April 2020 – Landon Annales, Introduction to Charles Paul Landon’s Annales du Musée Et de l’École Modern., one of most important collections of reproductions in the national collection at the Louvre.
April 2020 – Filhol Engravings, Introduction to the Filhol brothers’ reproductions of the art housed in the national collection.
May 2020 – 1812 Landon Robillard, Establishes that Jacques-Florent Robillard also owned a large collection of Charles Paul Landon’s Annales du Musée Et de l’École Modern.
December 2020 – Parguez Gericault, Adophe Parguez and Theodore Géricault’s shared family and financial interests in the Musée français.
February 2022 – Adelaide Sarba, Identifies Claude de Barras, brother-in-law of Louis-Nicolas-Joseph Robillard de Peronville, as a minor shareholder in the Robillard de Péronville & Laurent enterprise in Paris. Also confirms that Claude de Barras and the slave and former slave Adelaide Sarba produced 8 children together in Saint Domingue.