Accession number
PML 198162, fol. 6, no. 2
Creator
Huquier, Gabriel, 1695-1772, etcher, publisher.
Published
[Paris] : [Chez Huquier], [between 1720 and 1732]
Credit line
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.
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.
Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; image: 180 x 119 mm; sheet: 192 x 130 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 Jesus standing at right, laying his hands upon the eyes of the two blind men who kneel before him at left.
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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