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Louis Carrogis de Carmontelle BIOGRAPHY
1717 - 1806. Known for: Painting, writer, architect.
Reader and organizer of Philippe d'Orléans' parties, Louis Carrogis de Carmontelle was a writer, painter, and architect. He specialized in writing "proverbs" or light comedies, which he illustrated... Read full biography
Reader and organizer of Philippe d'Orléans' parties, Louis Carrogis de Carmontelle was a writer, painter, and architect. He specialized in writing "proverbs" or light comedies, which he illustrated with "transparencies", a genre he helped to create. He became famous for the many small portraits he... Read full biography
Reader and organizer of Philippe d'Orléans' parties, Louis Carrogis de Carmontelle was a writer, painter, and architect. He specialized in writing "proverbs" or light comedies, which he illustrated with "transparencies", a genre he helped to create. He became famous for the many small portraits he made of his contemporaries, becoming the illustrator of the last years of the Ancien Régime.
Reader and organizer of Philippe d'Orléans' parties, Louis Carrogis de Carmontelle was a writer, painter, and architect. He specialized in writing "proverbs" or light comedies, which he illustrated with "transparencies", a genre he helped to create. He became famous for the many small portraits he made of his contemporaries, becoming the illustrator of the last years of the Ancien Régime.
Reader and organizer of Philippe d'Orléans' parties, Louis Carrogis de Carmontelle was a writer, painter, and architect. He specialized in writing "proverbs" or light comedies, which he illustrated with "transparencies", a genre he helped to create. He became famous for the many small portraits he made of his contemporaries, becoming the illustrator of the last years of the Ancien Régime.
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Louis Carrogis Carmontelle, Louis Carrogis
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Reader and organizer of Philippe d'Orléans' parties, Louis Carrogis de Carmontelle was a writer, painter, and architect. He specialized in writing "proverbs" or light comedies, which he illustrated with "transparencies", a genre he helped to create. He became famous for the many small portraits he made of his contemporaries, becoming the illustrator of the last years of the Ancien Régime.