Can we love an artist for his slight clumsiness?
Among the gouache and watercolor drawings by Carmontelle gathered in the rooms of the graphic arts cabinet at Chantilly - these portraits which keep the memory of the last moments of grace of the 18th century - there are of course masterpieces.
Appears Mozart as a child playing with his father Léopold and his sister Nannerl, the surprising Narcissus, black servant of the Duchess of Orleans, costumed as Scottish, or these six gentlemen in red seen from behind, a genius idea, non-portraits whose models were all recognizable.
Sold for 531,000 euros in 2015 at Sotheby's during the last dispersal of the family's collections in France, this famous composition is on loan from its new owner.
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But the most moving of these drawings are perhaps those where musicians hold their instruments a little awkwardly, where an amateur leans heavily towards a game of chess, where Abbé Rochon and Gabriel de Bory, frozen , observe
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