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Claude-Louis Chatelet

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WikidataQ2976769

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Death yearWikidata· 92%
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BiographyWikipedia· 88%

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Aichttps://www.artic.edu/artists/40487
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Claude-Louis Chatelet was an 18th-century French draughtsman whose precisely rendered drawings documented architecture, landscape, and urban topography with scientific accuracy and refined compositional clarity. Working primarily in pen and wash, he produced meticulous studies of monuments, fortifications, and public spaces that served both as artistic works and practical architectural records. His technical mastery of perspective and light established him as one of the period's most accomplished practitioners of descriptive drawing.

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Artworks (5)

Illumination of the Belvedere Pavilion

1781 · oil paint

View of Catanzaro (from “Voyage Pittoresque, ou Description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile” by Jean-Claude Richard Abbé de Saint Non)

1780 · ink

River Rapids by Wooded Cliffs

1780 · gray wash with white gouache over traces of black chalk on blue laid paper

overall: 21.7 x 28.5 cm (8 9/16 x 11 1/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Second View of the Agrigento Countryside

1778 · pen

overall: 23.6 x 34.5 cm (9 5/16 x 13 9/16 in.) support: 31.7 x 33.8 cm (12 1/2 x 13 5/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

View of the Famous Chestnut Tree of Mount Etna, called Centum Cavalli

1774 · Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over traces of graphite, on ivory laid paper, laid down on buff laid paper

23.3 × 35.2 cm (9 3/16 × 13 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Second View of the Agrigento Countryside
1778 · Nga · 5 prov
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View of Catanzaro (from “Voyage Pittoresque, ou Description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile” by Jean-Claude Richard Abbé de Saint Non)
1780 · Wikidata · 5 prov
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Illumination of the Belvedere Pavilion
1781 · Wikidata · 5 prov
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River Rapids by Wooded Cliffs
1780 · Nga · 3 prov
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Art Institute of Chicago

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Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

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Washington, D.C., United States

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