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Carrogis Louis Carmontelle
(15th Aug, 1717 - 26th Dec, 1806)
La Malheureuse famille Calas
Credit:
Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Jean-Gilles Berizzi
musée du Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr
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Keywords:
reading
woman
cell (prison)
modern costume
chair
mobcap
affaire Calas (1762-1765)
Calvinism
tables (all types of)
servante
wig
man
judicial power
protestant
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About the artwork
Title:
La Malheureuse famille Calas
Periods:
modern age
19th century
18th century
Techniques:
black chalk
gouache highlighits
sanguine
wash drawing
Dimensions:
372 x 485
Inventory number:
RF41215-recto
Location:
musée du Louvre
About the author(s)
Author:
Carrogis Louis Carmontelle
Also known as:
Louis De Carmontelle
Louis Carrogis
Louis de Carmontelle
Louis Carrogis De Carmontelle
Louis Carrogis de Carmontelle
Born:
15th Aug, 1717
Dead:
26th Dec, 1806
Country:
France
See more about this author on Wikipedia:
Louis Carrogis Carmontelle
(b. Paris, 15 August 1717 – d. Paris, 26 December 1806) was a French dramatist, painter, architect, set designer and author, and designer of one of the earliest examples of the French landscape garden, Parc Monceau in Paris. He also invented the
transparent
, an early ancestor of the magic lantern and motion picture, for viewing moving bands of landscape paintings. Carmontelle came from a modest background- his father was a bootmaker. He studied drawing and geometry…
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