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    Louis Carrogis Carmontelle (15 August 1717 – 26 December 1806) was a French dramatist, painter, architect, set designer, author, and designer of one of...
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    de Besenval de Brunstatt as courtier around 1780, etching by Louis Carrogis Carmontelle Portrait of a Persian courtier Madame de Pompadour was a French...
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    de Saint-Georges, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and playwright Louis Carrogis Carmontelle. The couple also gave theatrical presentations, some of which were...
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    Sterne painted in watercolour by French artist Louis Carrogis Carmontelle, c. 1762...
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    painters, such as Jean-Marc Nattier, Jean-Baptiste Greuze and Louis Carrogis Carmontelle, the baron commissioned his last portrait from Henri-Pierre Danloux...
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    after he migrated to England to escape the persecution of Protestants after Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685. In 1706, Gabrielle-Suzanne married...
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    seen by the sketches we have of him, including a famous portrait by Carmontelle. He had a "loud voice". His speech was difficult to understand, just...
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    However, this painting is only a copy of the original gouache by Louis Carrogis Carmontelle from 1770. The painting shows six "gentlemen"(French: Gentilshommes)...
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    philosopher, a Pharaoh's tomb, and a hermit's cell. As the architect Louis Carrogis Carmontelle wrote about the garden he created at Monceau, "Let us vary the...
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    to create a public park, and employed the writer and painter Louis Carrogis Carmontelle to design the gardens. The Duke was a close friend of the Prince...
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