Carmontelle, Or the time of the sweetness of life.
Faton| N° d'inventaire | 23036 |
| Format | 21.5 X 21.5 |
| Détails | 96 p., illustration, publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Dijon, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | |
Collection "Les cahiers de Chantilly". Carmontelle, whose real name was Louis Carrogis, was an officer in the service of the Orléans family who sketched portraits of the guests of the Palais-Royal in black chalk, gouache, and watercolor. The Goncourt family, passionate about 18th-century art, defined him as "a man who posed before him the society of his time," from Buffon (1707-1788), naturalist, steward of the King's Garden, and La Condamine, chemist, man of letters, and traveler, to the geographer Cassini and Doctor Gatti, the king's physician who carried out the first inoculation experiments. The salons that hosted the philosophers of the Enlightenment are evoked with Madame d'Épinay, Madame du Châtelet, Ange-Laurent Lalive de Jully, and the Duke of Chartres, Philippe-Égalité. Carmontelle portrays the writers Grimm and Bachaumont, the musicians Jean-Philippe Rameau and Mozart as a child, playing in Paris in 1763 with his father and sister.
Collection "Les cahiers de Chantilly". Carmontelle, whose real name was Louis Carrogis, was an officer in the service of the Orléans family who sketched portraits of the guests of the Palais-Royal in black chalk, gouache, and watercolor. The Goncourt family, passionate about 18th-century art, defined him as "a man who posed before him the society of his time," from Buffon (1707-1788), naturalist, steward of the King's Garden, and La Condamine, chemist, man of letters, and traveler, to the geographer Cassini and Doctor Gatti, the king's physician who carried out the first inoculation experiments. The salons that hosted the philosophers of the Enlightenment are evoked with Madame d'Épinay, Madame du Châtelet, Ange-Laurent Lalive de Jully, and the Duke of Chartres, Philippe-Égalité. Carmontelle portrays the writers Grimm and Bachaumont, the musicians Jean-Philippe Rameau and Mozart as a child, playing in Paris in 1763 with his father and sister.