Accession number
PML 198162, fol. 18, no. 1
Creator
Joullain, François, 1697-1778, etcher, publisher.
Published
[Paris] : [chez Joullain rüe froid-manteau chez M. Dolibeau, Cordonnier], [between 1725-1732]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018.
Notes
Caption title.
One of a pair of etchings after Claude Gillot by François Joullain issued under the above title; the second companion plate bearing an imprint which reads: A Paris chez Joullain rüe froid-manteau chez M. Dolibeau, Cordonnier.
Plate signed "Gillot invenit." below the image at lower left.
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).
One of a pair of etchings after Claude Gillot by François Joullain issued under the above title; the second companion plate bearing an imprint which reads: A Paris chez Joullain rüe froid-manteau chez M. Dolibeau, Cordonnier.
Plate signed "Gillot invenit." below the image at lower left.
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 ; plate mark: 150 x 167 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in ink on album page above: Gillot-s'est dessiné lui mesme dans toute ces testes.
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
Six studies of comical facial expressions, with the artist's own face serving as a model for the studies which variously show him smiling, grimacing, mugging, etc.
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