Carmontelle

Carmontelle was a topographer, reader for the Duke of Chartres, parties organiser and transparencies inventor. He gave a portrayal of the society of his time. His paintings tell the everyday life in the 18^th century, the theatre, the gardens, the extraordinary parties. Art critic and author of funny and irresistible proverbs, he deserves to be known. He lived in the Palais-Royal and observed the Ancien Régime’s last years. He brings back to life this period of the Enlightenment which ends, like mirages, in destruction.