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Claude-Louis Châtelet

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Portrait of Châtelet and Le Prieur, two members of the Revolutionary Tribunal. Author is unknown.

Claude-Louis Châtelet, a French painter, was born in Paris in 1753. He produced Swiss views, sea-pieces, and pastoral scenes in the style of Vernet. Examples of his work are in the Orléans Museum, the Palace at Fontainebleau, and the Cottier Collection. He embraced with ardour the cause of the Revolution, allied himself with Robespierre and the leaders of the Jacobins, and became a member of the Revolutionary Tribunal. He was arrested some months after the 9th Thermidor, tried, condemned, and executed in Paris, May 7, 1795.

Illumination of the Belvédère Pavillon, Petit Trianon, 1781, now at the Palace of Versailles.
Plan du jardin et chateau de la Reine

References

  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainBryan, Michael (1886). "Chatelet, Claude Louis". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.