Constance-Marie-Thérèse de Vougny de Boquestant, née Pochet
Constance-Marie-Thérèse de Vougny de Boquestant is seated at a piano forte with a quill in her hand 1 . According to the text in the booklet in front of her, she is just writing a comedy with arias: "Les Alchimistes/Comédie en 2/actes en prose/mélée D'ariettes/par Madame/De B***". In the background we can see a bookcase and a globe which are partly covered up by a curtain and point to the lady' s diverse education.Constance-Marie-Thérèse Pochet, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Pochet, head groom, Parisian alderman and member of the Conseil Général de la Seine and his wife Marie Constance, married Anne Marie Louis de Vougny de Boquestant (1758-1847) on September 11, 1788. He was dragoon captain in the regiment of Languedoc and mayor of Boullay-Thierry. The couple had two sons, Anne-Jean-Marie (1790) and Anne-Marie-Hippolyte (1791) and one daughter, Constance (1801).
B.P.
1 A reply of this miniature by Chevalier de Montviol was offered by Christie's Geneva on May 15, 1990, no. 298 (without the sitter being identified). Two portraits of the lady and her husband which were painted around 1790 by Augustin are in a Parisian private possession. They have handwritten information about the sitters on their reverse. We are grateful to Mr René Maître, Paris, and to Mr and Mrs Pierre and Marie Papeloux, Paris.
