Accession number
PML 198162, fol. 18, no. 2
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.
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.
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 172 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in ink on album page above print: 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 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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