Accession number
PML 198162, fol. 3, no. 1
Creator
Joullain, François, 1697-1778, etcher.
Published
[Paris] : [publisher not identified], [between 1725-1732]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018.
Notes
Etching after Claude Gillot; attributed to Joullain by Populus, who cites Mariette as his source and speculates that the plate might have been begun by Gillot and finished by Joullain after the artist's death.
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).
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: 190 x 133 mm; sheet: 223 x 143 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 Joseph lying asleep in a bed at right, as an angel descends amidst clouds and a shaft of light at left; tools of the carpenter's trade lie on the floor in the foreground.
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