Les noces de Cana [print] / Gillot in. ; GH. F.

Accession number: 
PML 198162, fol. 5, no. 4
Author: 
Huquier, Gabriel, 1695-1772, etcher, publisher.
Published: 
[Paris] : [Chez Huquier], [between 1720 and 1732]
Description: 
1 print : etching and engraving ; image: 181 x 118 mm; sheet: 201 x 129 mm
Credit: 
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018.
Notes: 

Caption title.
One of a series of 60 etchings depicting the life of Christ, by Gabriel Huquier after drawings by Claude Gillot, issued under the title: Vie de Notre Seigneur Jesus Christ (Paris : Chez Huquier, [between 1720 and 1732]).
"The original drawings [for the Vie de Notre Seigneur Jesus Christ] were executed in 1720 and the series was engraved between that date and 1732 (when the set is mentioned by Mariette in his Notes Manuscrites)."--British Museum online catalog.
Forms part of a collection of 586 etchings and engravings 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).
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.

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: 

A palace courtyard where Jesus and his mother are shown sitting at a table at left; Jesus gestures towards a wine jar sitting in the foreground and two servers are engaged in filling goblets from ewer.

Classification: 
Print
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Department: 
Printed Books