Armand Doria
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| birth_name = Armand-François-Paul des Friches Doria
| birth_date = April 24, 1824
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| occupation = Art collector
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| spouse = Marie-Berthe de Villiers
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Count Armand Doria (1824-1896) was a French aristocrat, art collector and patron. He served as the mayor of Orrouy from 1864 to 1896. He acquired a significant collection of impressionist works, including paintings subsequently exhibited in museums in Europe and the United States.
Early life
Count Armand-François-Paul des Friches Doria was born on April 24, 1824, in Paris, France.{{cite book|author=Arsène Alexandre|author-link=Arsène Alexandre|title='Essai sur la Vie du Comte Armand DORIA', in Collection de M. le Comte Armand Doria|date=1899|publisher=Imprimerie Georges Petit|location=Paris, France|pages=I–XXXVIII|volume=1|url=https://archive.org/stream/collectiondemlec00gale#page/n23/mode/2up|access-date=December 25, 2015}} His father, Stanislas-Philippe-Henri Doria, was a marquis, which title his elder brother, Arthur, inherited. His paternal family was ennobled in 1539, during the ancien régime.{{cite book|author=Nicolas Viton de Saint-Allais|author-link=Nicolas Viton de Saint-Allais|title=Nobiliaire universel de France ou Recueil général des généalogies historiques des maisons nobles de ce royaume|date=1814|publisher=Nobiliaire Universel de France|location=Paris|pages=197–200|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LacYY_K_Io8C&q=Stanislas-Philippe-Henri+Doria&pg=PA200|access-date=December 26, 2015}}
Count Doria grew up in the family castle in Cayeux-en-Santerre and a hôtel particulier on the rue de la Perle in Le Marais, Paris. He was raised as a Roman Catholic, and confessed to Félix Dupanloup.
Career
Count Doria served as the mayor of Orrouy from 1864 to 1896. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, he encouraged local inhabitants to enlist in the French army and protected the town from the Prussian invaders. Count Doria was conservative, and he was influenced by the works of Joseph de Maistre, Louis Gabriel Ambroise de Bonald and Antoine Eugène Genoud.
Count Doria was a patron of the arts and art collector. For example, he was a patron to Adolphe-Félix Cals, who stayed in his castle for an extended period of time.{{cite journal |title=Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions |journal=The Burlington Magazine |volume=117 |issue=873 |page=838 |jstor=878199 | date = December 1975 |author1=C.S }}{{Base Mérimée|PA00114978|Château}} Other long-term guests were Gustave-Henri Colin and Victor Vignon. Count Doria also invited Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and Édouard Manet.
Count Doria was the owner of The Roman Campagna, with the Claudian Aqueduct, an 1826 painting by Corot which is now in the permanent collection of the National Gallery in London.{{cite web|title=The Roman Campagna, with the Claudian Aqueduct|url=http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/research/the-roman-campagna-with-the-claudian-aqueduct/*/viewPage/3|website=National Gallery|access-date=December 25, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151225172315/http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/research/the-roman-campagna-with-the-claudian-aqueduct/*/viewPage/3|archive-date=December 25, 2015|url-status=dead}} Another Corot painting, View of Olevano, is at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas.{{cite web|title=View of Olevano|url=https://www.kimbellart.org/collection-object/view-olevano|website=Kimbell Art Museum|access-date=December 25, 2015}} He purchased many more paintings by Corot over the years.{{cite book|last1=Tintetow|first1=Gary|last2=Pantazzi|first2=Michael|last3=Pomarède|first3=Vincent|title=Corot|date=1996|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|location=New York City|page=402|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5tchlLkspeIC&q=Armand+Doria&pg=PA402|access-date=December 25, 2015|isbn=9780870997693}} He was also the owner of La Leçon de tricot by Jean-François Millet. Another Millet painting he owned, View of Farm Buildings across a Field, is now in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.{{cite web|title=View of Farm Buildings across a Field|url=http://www.ashmolean.org/ash/objects/makedetail.php?pmu=770&mu=772>y=qsea&sec=&dtn=15&sfn=Artist%20Sort,Title&cpa=1&rpos=0&key=WA1951.25|website=Ashmolean Museum|access-date=December 25, 2015}} Additionally, Count Doria owned La maison du pendu by Paul Cézanne, but he exchanged it with art collector Victor Chocquet for another Cézanne painting, La Neige fondante. He also owned Les Grands boulevards by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, which is now in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.{{cite web|title=The Grands Boulevards|url=http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/82739.html|website=Philadelphia Museum of Art|access-date=December 25, 2015}}
Count Doria also mentored Léon-Honoré Labande, who served as the archivist of the Prince's Palace of Monaco from 1906 to 1939.{{cite journal|last1=Labande|first1=Edmond-René|title=Léon-Honoré Labande|journal=Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes|date=1941|volume=102|issue=1|pages=340–345|url=http://www.persee.fr/doc/bec_0373-6237_1941_num_102_1_460372|access-date=December 20, 2015}}{{cite journal|last1=Fliche|first1=Augustin|author-link = Augustin Fliche|title=Notice sur la vie et les travaux de M. Léon-Honoré Labande, membre de l'Académie|journal=Comptes Rendus des Séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres|date=1945|volume=89|issue=1|pages=58–80|url=http://www.persee.fr/doc/crai_0065-0536_1945_num_89_1_77824|access-date=December 20, 2015}}
Personal life
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Count Doria married Marie-Berthe de Villiers, the daughter of Prudent-Léopold de Villiers and Elizabeth Poulletier de Suzenet, in 1854. They resided at the Château d'Orrouy, owned by his grandparents, in Orrouy, Oise, Picardy. They had a son, François Doria, and a daughter, Marie-Luce. His wife died four years into their marriage. His daughter died when she was twenty years old.
Death
Count Doria died on May 7, 1896. He was buried in Orrouy.