Parc Monceau
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Parc Monceau is a public park situated in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France, at the junction of the Boulevard de Courcelles, Rue de Prony and Rue Georges Berger. At the main entrance is a rotund
Rotunda, in Parc Monceau (1787), built as part of the Wall of the Farmers-General
Carmontelle giving keys to Parc Monceau to the Duke of Chartres (painting by Carmontelle (1779)
Turkish tents and lake in Parc Monceau painted by Carmontelle (1779)
The classical colonnade in Parc Monceau (1778)
Louis Carrogis Carmontelle
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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
Parc Monceau
…In 1769 he had begun purchasing the land where the park is located. In 1778, he decided 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 of Wales, later George IV, and an anglophile. His intention was to create what was…
Self-portrait, 1762.
Carmontelle's watercolour (1763) of Leopold Mozart with Wolfgang Amadeus and Maria Anna is among his best-known works.
Carmontelle's watercolour (1760) of Jean-Philippe Rameau
A portrait of Baron d'Holbach