Gustave de Reiset

Gustave-Armand-Henri, comte de Reiset (13 July 1821 – 2 March 1905) was a French diplomat, writer and art collector.

Born at Mont-Saint-Aignan, he was the brother of his fellow collector Frédéric and the politician Jules as well as the nephew of the Napoleonic general Marie Antoine.

Pope Gregory XVI made him a hereditary Roman count on 21 May 1842 and the title was recognised in France by an ordinance of Louis-Philippe of France dated 6 August the same year, followed by letters patent on 14 November that year.

He died at his home of Le Breuil-Benoît Abbey, which he had begun to restore in 1842 and where he had built a new church, consecrated in 1854.

He was a keen collector and acquired a fireplace from the château de Roujou à Fresnes (Loir-et-Cher) bearing a gilded bronze bas relief showing a bust of Francis I of France in profile - the bust was attributed to Matteo del Nassaro.