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French School, c. 1820
Claude-Charles Barilleau (1788–1864) and his wife, née Justine Allé (born 1788)
Claude-Charles Barilleau (1788–1864) and his wife, née Justine Allé (born 1788)
Black chalk (pair)
9 x 7 cm (each) – 3 1/2 x 2 3/4 in. (each)
Claude-Charles Barilleau (1788–1864) and his wife, Justine Allé (born in 1788), black chalk (a pair)
Château de La Noue, Champagne (Roger de Montégudet collection); subsequently passed down through the family, now in a private collection (Belgium).
Barilleau was a doctor at Poitiers Hospital. He qualified as a doctor of medicine in Paris in 1813. In 1814, Claude Barilleau joined the Poitiers School of Medicine and Pharmacy as a lecturer. He was a professor of medical pathology (1813–1814), anatomy and physiology (1814), and internal medicine (1833). He became the school’s director in 1834. He sat on the school’s academic council from 1834 to 1850. He was elected associate member of the medicine section of the Academy of Medicine on 5 April 1825. Knight of the Legion of Honour (1851).