Louis Carrogis Carmontelle 18th.Century French School Red Chalk Drawing Circa.1770

Louis Carrogis Carmontelle 18th.Century French School Red Chalk Drawing Circa.1770Louis Carrogis Carmontelle 1717 1806 French School 18th. Century Red chalk drawing on laid paper. Study of a young woman in a landscape holding flowers. 21 by 25 cms. Circa. 1770. Carmontelle was a French dramatist, painter, architect, set designer, author, and designer of one of the earliest examples of the French Landscape Garden, The Parc Monceau, in Paris. He also invented the transparent, an early ancestor of the magic lantern and motion picture,

1740-1811 Pencil and wash drawing signed and dated 1775

Some surface grubbiness and rubbing old tape stain to upper right corner

Laid to backing sheet some age related timestaining and skillfully repaired worming

Century Academic Nude study

The Merry Wives Of Windsor

2nd Duke of Grafton 1683-1757)

The Private Correspondence or Betty in the Secret

10 by 9 inches

HMS Vanguard was a 74 Gun third rate ship of the line launched in 1787

A group of 7

Century British School Pastel painting

Shortly afterwards becoming Charles's favourite mistress