Accession number
PML 198162, fol. 21, no. 1
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 Vieillesse" (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: Voicy le tems amer des peines, des soucis ...
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 Vieillesse" (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: Voicy le tems amer des peines, des soucis ...
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 159; sheet: 247 x 182 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 a young woman seated on the ground beneath two trees, attended by another young woman and a man brandishing a sword and spear who stands behind her shoulder at left; directly behind her, at left and right, five burly satyrs are engaged in the task of lifting a large wooden beam over her head.
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