Accession number
PML 198162, fol. 33-41
Creator
Caylus, Anne Claude Philippe, comte de, 1692-1765, etcher.
Published
[Paris] : [publisher not identified], [18th century]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018.
Notes
Title from Populus.
Series of 17 etchings executed by Caylus after drawings by Claude Gillot.
The first state, before letters; caption titles were added in the second state, probably by the publisher (possibly, according to Populus and Weigert, the widow of Parisian publisher François Chéreau).
Sheets trimmed to plate marks.
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).
Series of 17 etchings executed by Caylus after drawings by Claude Gillot.
The first state, before letters; caption titles were added in the second state, probably by the publisher (possibly, according to Populus and Weigert, the widow of Parisian publisher François Chéreau).
Sheets trimmed to plate marks.
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
17 prints : etching ; various sizes.
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.
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