Accession number
PML 198162, fol. 19
Published
[Paris] : [Chez Lenoir], 18th century.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018.
Notes
Caption title and imprint from finished state.
Etching after Gillot by an unidentfied printmaker.
Preliminary, etched state, before all letters and before work on the plate was completed and finished with the burin. Cf. Populus.
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).
Etching after Gillot by an unidentfied printmaker.
Preliminary, etched state, before all letters and before work on the plate was completed and finished with the burin. Cf. Populus.
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: 276 x 238; sheet: 313 x 238 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
A scene from one of La Fontaine's Fables, showing the milkmaid crying over her spilt milk.
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