Accession number
PML 198162, fol. 24, no. 2
Creator
Gillot, Claude, 1673-1722, printmaker.
Published
[A Paris] : [Chez P. de Rochefort graveur rue St Jacques au Palmier], [18th century].
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018.
Notes
Title, signature, and imprint from untrimmed impression of the lettered state of Gillot's etching.
Counterproof of an etching by Claude Gillot, working proof touched by the artist in red chalk and marked with a grid in graphite.
From a set of four plates representing celebrations of Greco-Roman gods.
Sheet closely trimmed within 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).
Counterproof of an etching by Claude Gillot, working proof touched by the artist in red chalk and marked with a grid in graphite.
From a set of four plates representing celebrations of Greco-Roman gods.
Sheet closely trimmed within 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: 174 x 356 mm; sheet: 177 x 362 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 Bacchanalian scene, with satyrs and bacchantes celebrating around a herm with a head of Bacchus.
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