Accession number
PML 198162, fol. 21, no. 2
Creator
Joullain, François, 1697-1778, etcher.
Published
[A Paris] : [Chez Joullain rüe froidmanteau chez M. Dolibeau cordonnier], [18th century].
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018.
Notes
Caption title.
Imprint supplied from the first plate of the series, "L'Enfance".
Engraving by François Joullain after Claude Gillot.
One of a published suite of four prints, known as "Les Quatre ages du Satyre", depicting the ages of man as enacted by satyrs; other prints in the series include "L'Enfance", "L'Adolescence", and "La Virilité" (cf. Bernard Populus, L'Oeuvre gravé de Claude Gillot, Paris, 1930, nos. 390-93).
Below image at lower left: Gillot invenit.
Four lines of verse below caption title, the first line reading: L'Homme au déclin de l'age en sa caducité ...
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).
Imprint supplied from the first plate of the series, "L'Enfance".
Engraving by François Joullain after Claude Gillot.
One of a published suite of four prints, known as "Les Quatre ages du Satyre", depicting the ages of man as enacted by satyrs; other prints in the series include "L'Enfance", "L'Adolescence", and "La Virilité" (cf. Bernard Populus, L'Oeuvre gravé de Claude Gillot, Paris, 1930, nos. 390-93).
Below image at lower left: Gillot invenit.
Four lines of verse below caption title, the first line reading: L'Homme au déclin de l'age en sa caducité ...
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: 211 x 158; sheet: 244 x 185 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.
Binding
Red morocco tooled in gilt on spine, circa 1750, with a small roll border on both covers and a Greek-key border added at a later date, perhaps along with the Newcastle arms.
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