Louis Carrogis Carmontelle

Louis Carmontelle, actually Louis Carrogis ( born August 15, 1717 Paris, † December 26, 1806 ) was a French painter, inventor and landscapers. He was in the service of the Dukes of Orléans, for which he organized festivals and the Folie de Chartres ( remaining range today Parc Monceau ) docked.

Background and education

Carmontelle was the son of a shoemaker. About his school days is nothing, little is known about his early years. He learned the art of drawing and acquired knowledge of geometry to 1741, he was engineer. 1754 he was in the service of the Dukes of Chevreuse and Luycens. 1758 he worked as a surveyor in the dragoon regiment of Orleans, then as a private tutor for nobles. He drew attention to himself by first portrait drawings; about his artistic training is unknown, Carmontelle was probably self-taught.

Time under Louis- Philippe ( I) d' Orléans

After the Peace of Amiens in 1763 succeeded Carmontelle to gain access to the circle of the Duke of Orléans family. He was an organizer of the ducal celebrations, theatrical performances and similar events. His ideas and his artistic talent ensured the " all-rounder " Carmontelle his social position. He portrayed a large scale ( pen and ink drawing and watercolor ) numerous people and guests of the Ducal environment, he worked very quickly.

Time under " Philippe Egalite ," Louis -Philippe II

Already in 1773 had Carmontelle by the son of the Duke, who later became " Philippe Egalite ", awarded the contract on a property in the North West of Paris to increase the garden of a ducal estate and embellish. Carmontelle created until 1778, the Folie de Chartres, a (s) in contemporary modern English style designed picturesque "Land ( company) of Illusions " ( pays d' illusions ) with numerous follies and exoticism, a " folly garden". Even after the death of the Duke in 1785, he continued working for his son.

Carmontelle was also active in a landscape painter. One of his inventions were scrolls, which had a size of about 50 centimeters in height and up to several tens of meters in length. They were designed with rubber colors on paper as China Transparent and could be demonstrated by means of a box made ​​of Carmontelle front of a light source. The located on two wheels, moved by crank filmstrips represented fictional landscapes that showed contemporary realistic garden scenes. Carmontelle was thus the inventor of an early animation of images.

After the death of Louis Philippe II under the Guillotine ( 1793) Carmontelle lived quietly in an apartment in the rue Vivienne (Paris), where he died thirteen years later. Carmontelle was an artist of the ancien régime, to whom he owed his rise and success; only in his anonymous writings he took a critical position.

Work

The graphic work Carmontelle is extensive. Over 600 portraits of contemporary performers with great documentary value are preserved. Carmontelle provided the model for the engraving La Famille malheureuse Calas (for legal scandal Jean Calas ) by Jean -Baptiste Delafosse, further landscape pictures and scrolls. Creatively landscape was the Park Monceau his main work, however, only a few of the garden buildings are still present, the naumachia.

Carmontelle transparent scroll paintings are preserved only in part:

  • Musée Condé, Chantilly: No designation, 48.5 × 12 600 cm ( beginning slightly shortened )
  • Private property: unlabeled, 42 × 2000 cm
  • Musée de l' Ile- de -France, Sceaux: The Seasons (1798 ), 41 × 4200 cm
  • J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles: unlabeled, 47 × 377 cm ( incomplete)
  • Rachel Lambert Mellon Collection, Upperville: without the label ( about 1800-1804 ), 48 × 2135 cm
  • Private ownership: single sheets of four more banners

Publications

Carmontelle was also active as a writer. His proverbes were small pieces for entertainment at court festivities with a moral point. Carmontelle's novels remained without much success. His art criticism appeared anonymously and only attributed to him.

  • Proverbes dramatiques, conversational piece ( 1768)
  • Amusements de société, conversational piece (1769 )
  • Le triomphe de l' amour sur les mœurs de ce siècle, Roman ( 1773)
  • Théâtre de campagne, conversational piece (1775 )
  • Le duc d' Arnay, Roman ( 1776)
  • L' abbé de plâtre, comedy ( performed 1779)
  • Le coup de patte, criticism, attributed (1779 )
  • Jardins de Monceau, Garden Description (1779 )
  • Le triumvirat the arts, criticism, attributed (1783 )
  • Les femmes, dialogue novel (1825 )
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