Charlotte de Rothschild

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Charlotte de Rothschild
1866 Portrait of the Baroness Charlotte de Rothschild by Jean-Léon Gérôme (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
Born(1825-05-06)6 May 1825
Paris, France
Died20 July 1899(1899-07-20) (aged 74)
Paris, France
Spouse
(m. 1842)
ChildrenNathalie de Rothschild (b. 1843)
Betty von Rothschild

Baroness Charlotte de Rothschild (6 May 1825 – 20 July 1899) was a French socialite, painter, and a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of France.

Early years

She was born in Paris, the daughter of Betty von Rothschild (1805–1886) and

Gioacchino Rossini, Frédéric Chopin, Honoré de Balzac, Eugène Delacroix, and Heinrich Heine. Chopin had become Charlotte's piano teacher in 1841, and as a tacit acknowledgment of the many years of support extended by Baron James and his wife Betty, dedicated to her an autograph of his so-called Farewell-Waltz in A-flat major, Op. 69 No.1,[2] (almost certainly as an 1843 wedding present) his celebrated Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52, and four years later another work, his Waltz in C-sharp minor, Op. 64, No. 2
.

Married life

In 1842, Charlotte married her

de Rothschild Frères
. They were the parents of:

While Charlotte de Rothschild and her husband would always live in Paris, in 1853 they purchased the Château Brane-Mouton

Henri James de Rothschild to aircraft manufacturer Félix Amiot
.

Artist

bought by Baroness Charlotte de Rothschild

Like her father, Charlotte de Rothschild was a collector of art and grew up around his artistic friends. As an adult, Charlotte would count amongst her friends the likes of

Charlotte de Rothschild's interest extended to music, entertaining musician friends such as Georges Bizet and Camille Saint-Saëns. Charlotte de Rothschild's lifetime of involvement in art and music would greatly influence her offspring, producing writers, actors and playwrights.

Later years

Tragedy struck her family in 1881 when she lost her eldest surviving child, thirty-seven-year-old

depression that led to his suicide
.

See also

References

  1. ^ Harry W. Paul (2005). Collecting Chardins: Charlotte and Henri de Rothschild Archived 2012-03-07 at the Wayback Machine. The Rothschild Archive: Review of the Year April 2004 – March 2005. ISSN 1748-9148 (print), 1748-9156 (web). pp. 21–26. Accessed September 2013.
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  3. ^ [s.n.] (1879). Société d'aquarellistes français: Première exposition; rue Laffitte, 16: Catalogue (in French). Paris: Imprimerie de D. Jouaust.
  4. ^ Adding the Personal to the Purely Sacred, Edward Rothstein, June 25, 2010, New York Times.