Accession number
PML 198162, fol. 22, no. 1
Creator
Gillot, Claude, 1673-1722, printmaker.
Published
A Paris : Chez J. Audran Graveur du Roy à l'Hôtel Royal des Gobelins, 18th century.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018.
Notes
Caption title.
Designed and etched by Claude Gillot and finished with the burin by Jean Audran.
One of a published suite of four prints, known as "La Vie des Satyres", depicting the life of a Satyr from birth to death; the three other plates in the series include "La naissance", "L'éducation", and "Les obseques" (cf. Bernard Populus, L'Oeuvre gravé de Claude Gillot, Paris, 1930, nos. 5-8).
Eight lines of verse engraved in two columns below caption title: Triste fète! ... à sa chaine attaché.
Sheet partially 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).
Designed and etched by Claude Gillot and finished with the burin by Jean Audran.
One of a published suite of four prints, known as "La Vie des Satyres", depicting the life of a Satyr from birth to death; the three other plates in the series include "La naissance", "L'éducation", and "Les obseques" (cf. Bernard Populus, L'Oeuvre gravé de Claude Gillot, Paris, 1930, nos. 5-8).
Eight lines of verse engraved in two columns below caption title: Triste fète! ... à sa chaine attaché.
Sheet partially 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 and engraving ; image: 217 x 334; sheet: 260 x 340 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 an elderly satyr seated with an old woman in a rude open wooden shelter at center; the couple warm themselves at a fire, as other elderly satyrs equipped with canes and crutches, sit and hobble in the foreground at left and right.
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