Claude-Louis Châtelet
Revolutionary painter of Swiss and sea views
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.
Artworks by this artist
- Vue du Wellhorn et du Wetterhorn prise de Rosenlaui vers Meiringen dans l’Oberland bernois 1783
- View Of The Cascade Del Marmore Near Terni
- Illumination de la place Louis-XV à l’occasion de la naissance du dauphin, en octobre 1781 1781
- Italienische Landschaft mit Medici-Brunnen
- Second View of the Agrigento Countryside 1778
- View of Catanzaro About 1780
- A View Of The Marmore Falls Near Terni
- River Rapids by Wooded Cliffs c. 1780
- View of the Famous Chestnut Tree of Mount Etna, called Centum Cavalli 1784