Accession number
PML 198162, fol. 3, no. 3
Creator
Gillot, Claude, 1673-1722, printmaker.
Published
[Paris] : Se vend a ps. chez Huquier, [approximately 1720]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018.
Notes
Title and suggested date of creation from Populus.
Drawn and etched by Claude Gillot.
Signed in the plate at lower left: Gillot in. f.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
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).
Drawn and etched by Claude Gillot.
Signed in the plate at lower left: Gillot in. f.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
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).
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 177 x 115 mm; sheet: 186 x 125 mm
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.
Summary
Print shows the Christ child standing in a garden, crowned by angels, while the Virgin attends to her needlework at left.
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