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René Théodore BERTHON (1776-1859) Portrait of Alfred Walsh and his dog in front of the Château du Plassy Macé Oil on canvas, signed in the middle left and dated 1847. 133 x 96 cm The castle of Plessis-Macé is a medieval fortress made of black schist, built in the 13th century and transformed into a pleasure house in the Gothic style at the end of the 15th century. Indeed the castle was largely destroyed during the Hundred Years War. From 1450, Louis de Beaumont, lord of Bressuire and Plessis-Macé, transformed the medieval fortress into a flamboyant gothic style castle. He completed the restoration of his castle of Plessis-Macé in 1475. In 1749, the Plessis-Macé was acquired, along with the castle of Serrant, by the Walsh family, an ancient family of Irish origin. Louis XV made François-Jacques Walsh Count of Serrant in 1755. In the 19th century, Countess Sophie Walsh de Serrant (lady-in-waiting of the Empress) undertook the restoration of the castle in the "gothic" taste of the time, and lived there from 1868 until her death in 1872. Her first husband, Théobald, died in 1836 in Paris, and she remarried in 1839 to a cousin of her deceased husband, Alfred Walsh, represented in our painting. Provenance : château de la Maroutière
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