# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/claude-henri-watelet
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:58:54.555Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/claude-henri-watelet"
name: "Claude-Henri Watelet"
slug: "claude-henri-watelet"
description: "Claude-Henri Watelet was a rich French fermier-général who was an amateur painter, a well-respected etcher, a writer on the arts and a connoisseur of gardens. Watelet's inherited privilege of farming taxes in the Orléanais left him free to pursue his avocations, art and literature and gardens. His Essai sur les jardins, 1774, firmly founded on English ideas expressed by Thomas Whately, introduced the English landscape garden to France, as the jardin Anglois. The sociable Watelet, who was born and died in Paris, was at the center of the French art world of his time."
tagline: "French writer (1718-1786)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jean-Baptiste_Greuze_-_Claude_Watelet_(1765).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1718-08-28"
deathDate: "1786-01-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.93
  momentum:             1.904761904761905
  historical:           6.542333333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BB%D0%B5%2C_%D0%9A%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B4-%D0%90%D0%BD%D1%80%D0%B8"
    title: "Ватле, Клод-Анри"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AF_%D9%87%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%89_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "كلود هنرى واتليت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude-Henri_Watelet"
    title: "Claude-Henri Watelet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude-Henri_Watelet"
    title: "Claude-Henri Watelet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude-Henri_Watelet"
    title: "Claude-Henri Watelet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude-Henri_Watelet"
    title: "Claude-Henri Watelet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude-Henri_Watelet"
    title: "Claude-Henri Watelet"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1392588"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump