Ladies make Music & Dance in the mid 18C French Garden

The artist here is Louis Carrogis de Carmontelle, 1717-1806. French artist who also designed several gardens, including the jardin anglochinois Parc Monceau, Paris (1773–8), with its many diversions including "ruins," a "Dutch windmill," a "Tartar tent," and similar fabrications. One of its most unusual features was the Bois des Tombeaux (Wood of Tombs) containing forms of tombs (pyramids, etc.). Thomas Blaikie, the Scots landscape-gardener, was brought in (c.1781) to simplify Carmontelle's somewhat overladen scheme, but the work was an important catalyst in the adoption of the garden, embellished with monuments, into the 19C cemetery.

Mme de Meaux, Mlle de Meaux and Mr de Saint-Quentin, 1758

Madame la Comtesse Alexandre de Damas, 1784

Mme la Vicomtesse de Rochechouart, 1760s

Mlle Lani, 1765

Mme la Barone d'Holbach, 1766

Mme la Comtesse d'Auxy, c 1758

Mlle Chevalier, of the l'Académie Royale de Musique, c. 1760

On the Garden Terrace...

Mme de Villaumont and Mme Des Cours, c. 1760

Mesdemoiselles Royer, 1760

Mme la Barone de Talleyrand, 1765 

Mme la marquise de Rumain, la Comtesse de Polignac and Mademoiselle de Rumain,1768

Madame Moreau and Mademoiselle de Flinville, 1780s

Portrait of Ladies, c. 1780