The French Revolution rooms at the musée Carnavalet reopened in February this year following their refurbishment. Among the new exhibits are three newly-acquired paintings of Paris by the artist Jean-Baptiste Marot created for Eric Rohmer's 2001 film The Lady and the Duke (based on the experiences of the Scottish-born courtesan Grace Dalrymple Elliott during the Terror). Marot's tableaux (there were thirty-seven in all) were used to form the film set with the actors digitally inserted into them as though into moving paintings. The result is effective if a bit weird - rather like a live-action pop-up-book.
The pictures themselves, however, are beautiful and meticulously researched using a plethora of plans, maps, paintings and engravings, as well as Charles Marville's photographs of pre-Haussman Paris. The three Carnavalet acquisitions on display represent the Palais Bourbon, the Church of Saint-Roch and the Convent of the Feuillants.
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| rue St-Honoré and the couvent des Feuillant |
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| The Church of St-Roch, Based on the painting of 1840 by Mingasson de Martinazeau also in the Carnavalet |
Musée Carnavalet Press dossier February 2015
http://parismusees.paris.fr/sites/etablissement_public/files/cp_dp_visuels/dossiers_de_presse/dp_reouverture_salles_de_la_revolution.pdf
Jean-Baptiste Marot, Article for Neil Young's Film Lounge, March 23rd, 2004
http://www.jigsawlounge.co.uk/film/reviews/neil-youngs-film-lounge-jean-baptiste-marot/
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