louis xvi and the locksmith by joseph caraud King of France painter artist workshop trade work metalwork
Louis XVI or Louis (23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793) ruled as King of France and of Navarre from 1774 until 1791, and then as King of the French from 1791 to 1792. Suspended and arrested during the Insurrection of 10 August, he was tried by the National Convention, found guilty of treason, and executed by guillotine on 21 January 1793. He was the only king of France to be executed. Although Louis was beloved at first, his indecisiveness and conservatism led some elements of the people of France to eventually view him as a symbol of the perceived tyranny of the Ancien Régime. After the abolition of the monarchy in 1792, the new republican government gave him the surname Capet, a reference to the nickname of Hugh Capet, founder of the Capetian dynasty, which the revolutionaries wrongly interpreted as a family name. He was also informally nicknamed Louis le Dernier (Louis the Last), a derisive use of the traditional nicknaming of French kings. Today, historians and French people in general have a more nuanced view of Louis XVI, who is seen as an honest man with good intentions, but who was probably unfit for the herculean task of reforming the monarchy, and who was used as a scapegoat by the revolutionaries. Joseph Caraud was born in Cluny (Saône-et-Loire) on Janruary 5, 1821 and died in November 1905. Caraud is considered a historical and genre painter from the French school. In 1844, Caraud traveled to Paris to attend the Beaux-Arts Academie. It was his academic studies under Master painter Alexandre Abel de Pujol (1787-1861) and later with Charles Louis Lucien Muller (1815- 1892) that helped launch his career as one of France’s best portrait and genre painters of the 19th century. Caraud debuted at the Paris Salon of 1843. He submitted several portraits and a wonderful painting with the title “La bonne maman et la petite fille (A Good Grandmother and her Granddaughter). Caraud continued to exhibit portraits, intimate genre and historical paintings at the
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