Claude-Louis Châtelet
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 Claude Joseph Vernet, Vernet. Examples of his work are in the Orléans Museum, the Palace of Fontainebleau, Palace at Fontainebleau, and the Cottier Collection. He embraced with ardour the cause of the French Revolution, Revolution, allied himself with Maximilien Robespierre, Robespierre and the leaders of the Jacobin Club, Jacobins, and became a member of the Revolutionary Tribunal. He was arrested some months after the Thermidorian Reaction, 9th Thermidor, tried, condemned, and executed in Paris, May 7, 1795. References

* Jacobins 1753 births 1795 deaths Painters from Paris 18th-century French painters French male painters French people executed by guillotine during the French Revolution People of the Reign of Terror 18th-century French male artists {{France-painter-18thC-stub ...
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