Accession number:
PML 198162, fol. 24, no. 1
Published:
A Paris : Chez Rochefort graveur ruë St. Jacques au Palmier, [18th century]
Description:
1 print : mezzotint ; image: 217 x 336; sheet: 260 x 344 mm
Credit:
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018.
Notes:
Five lines of verse engraved in two columns: Pan voulant composer une Feste Bachique ... Se change en Arlequin pour paroitre plus beau.
Mezzotint by Isaac Sarrabat after Claude Gillot.
Sheet partially trimmed to plate mark.
Forms part of a collection of 586 etchings by and after Claude Gillot, mounted into a bound album (PML 198162) by a former owner, with letterpress title page reading "Oeuvres de Gillot."
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:
Satirical print shows a sylvan setting with a figure identified as Pan, attired as Harlequin, mounted on a donkey at left, surrounded by attending satyrs; at right, Syrinx and her fellow nymphs appear to be bathing in a fountain shrine surmounted by a herm as they regard his approach with welcoming smiles.
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