Accession number
PML 198162, fol. 2-17
Creator
Huquier, Gabriel, 1695-1772, etcher, publisher.
Published
[Paris] : Se vend a ps. chez Huquier, [between 1720 and 1732]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018.
Notes
Title from title plate.
Series of 60 etchings, some of them (according to Populus), lightly touched with a burin, depicting the life of Christ; by Gabriel Huquier after drawings by Claude Gillot.
"The original drawings were executed in 1720 and the series was engraved between that date and 1732 (when the set is mentioned by Mariette in his Notes Manuscrites)."--British Museum online catalog.
Title plate in the first published state as described by Populus, without the later additions to Huquier's imprint; the remaining 59 plates comprising the series appear to be in the second state, with all letters.
Prints comprising this published set have been cataloged individually.
The majority of etchings comprising the series are signed in the plate with the monogram of the etcher, "GH", and "Gillot in."
Forms part of a collection of 586 etchings by and after Claude Gillot, mounted into a bound album by a former owner, with letterpress title page reading "Oeuvres de Gillot." (see PML 198162).
Watermarks are not discernible owing to the mounting of the plates on the album leaves; prints have been trimmed to the plate mark.
Series of plates mounted together on Gillot album leaves 2-17, along with three additional etchings by or after Gillot depicting scenes from the life of Christ which were not issued as part of this series; including a depiction of the Christ child standing in a garden, and crowned by angels, as the Virgin attends to her embroidery (Populus no. 15) and Jesus accompanied by two disciples (Populus 16), both designed and executed by Gillot, and the print "Songe de St Joseph", evidently etched by Joullain after Gillot. The three added prints cataloged individually.
Series of 60 etchings, some of them (according to Populus), lightly touched with a burin, depicting the life of Christ; by Gabriel Huquier after drawings by Claude Gillot.
"The original drawings were executed in 1720 and the series was engraved between that date and 1732 (when the set is mentioned by Mariette in his Notes Manuscrites)."--British Museum online catalog.
Title plate in the first published state as described by Populus, without the later additions to Huquier's imprint; the remaining 59 plates comprising the series appear to be in the second state, with all letters.
Prints comprising this published set have been cataloged individually.
The majority of etchings comprising the series are signed in the plate with the monogram of the etcher, "GH", and "Gillot in."
Forms part of a collection of 586 etchings by and after Claude Gillot, mounted into a bound album by a former owner, with letterpress title page reading "Oeuvres de Gillot." (see PML 198162).
Watermarks are not discernible owing to the mounting of the plates on the album leaves; prints have been trimmed to the plate mark.
Series of plates mounted together on Gillot album leaves 2-17, along with three additional etchings by or after Gillot depicting scenes from the life of Christ which were not issued as part of this series; including a depiction of the Christ child standing in a garden, and crowned by angels, as the Virgin attends to her embroidery (Populus no. 15) and Jesus accompanied by two disciples (Populus 16), both designed and executed by Gillot, and the print "Songe de St Joseph", evidently etched by Joullain after Gillot. The three added prints cataloged individually.
Description
[60] prints : etching and engraving ; various sizes; in album: 55.4 x 40.9 cm
Provenance
Acquired in Paris by Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton (1720-1794), Duke of Newcastle, Clumber Library, ca. 1750 (his arms on the front cover); by descent until his library was dispersed at Christie's, London, in four parts between 21 June 1937 and 14 February 1938; Fernand Pouillon (1912-1986), Jardin de Flore, Paris, Cent livres illustrés du XV au XX siècle (1977), item 40; Librarie Fernand de Nobele, Paris, Livres sur les beaux-arts, les arts decoratifs et les objets de collection, bibliographie, imprimerie (1981), lot no. 39204; André Jammes (b. 1927), Paris; sale, Paris, Hotel Drouot, 28 November 2018, lot 3.
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