An exceptional piece recalls that the great 18th-century French illustrator was also a noteworthy inventor. He created this transparency featuring rustic scenes, a forerunner of cinema, under the Ancien Régime.
Louis Carrogis, known as Carmontelle (1717-1806), Paysage panoramique des campagnes de France, transparency, watercolour and gouache, on several assembled Whatman sheets, surrounded by a black border, 0.32 x 16.16 m.
Estimate: €30,000/40,000
The wonderful, realistic pencil and watercolour portraits by Louis Carrogis, known as Carmontelle, of his contemporaries in profile, capturing the slightest details, never cease to prompt our admiration. These snapshots, whose models were aristocrats, bourgeois, artists and scientists, give us a glimpse into the glittering society of the Enlightenment. Over 700 have been counted that the artist never sold, keeping them for himself. Most of them are at the Château de Chantilly near Paris.
An ancestor of cinema In his day, this jack-of-all-trades…
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