Images: Left, Château d’Haroué via Pinterest & above, Château d’Haroué also via Pinterest
Sotheby’s Parisian bureau, opened since 1988 in the heart of Faubourg Saint Honoré, announced not long ago the sale of fine furniture, paintings and works of art from the collection of Prince Marc de Beauvau-Craon.
The event will be held at Sotheby’s on 15 September and this occasion will also mark the inauguration of the new Sotheby’s auction room in Paris, named after Laure de Beauvau-Craon, the former Présidente-Directrice Générale of Sotheby’s Paris.
The Prince was the chairman of La Demeure Historique, an association dedicated to the preservation of private historical monuments. Château d’Haroué, built between 1720 and 1732, family home of the Beauvau-Craon dynasty, was the raison d’être of this assiduous protector and promoter of the arts.
Prince Marc de Beauvau-Craon’s daughter Diane de Beauvau-Craon said: “I spent my childhood worshipping the beauty of architecture and the arts. I was extraordinarily lucky: wherever I turned my gaze, it always fell on the beauty of life. On my father’s death, the childhood home I loved turned into ‘Le Château’ overnight. I decided to leave with the magic of my childhood memories intact, filled with the love and tenderness my father had lavished on me.”
