Artist

Louis Carmontelle

Portrait of Louis Carmontelle
Portrait of Louis Carmontelle

French, 1717–1806

Louis Carmontelle was a French Romanticism artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Cleveland Museum of Art. Louis Carmontelle was born in Paris.

Louis Carrogis Carmontelle was a French dramatist, painter, architect, set designer, author, and designer of one of the earliest examples of the French landscape garden, Parc Monceau in Paris. He also invented the transparent, an early ancestor of the magic lantern and motion picture, for viewing moving bands of landscape paintings.

Works by Louis Carmontelle

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