Accession number
PML 198162, fol. 42-51
Creator
Joullain, François, 1697-1778, etcher.
Published
Se vend à Paris : Chez le Sr. Duchange, graveur du Roy, ruë St. Jacques, au dessus des Mathurins, et chez Joullain, rue Froidmanteau chez M. Dolibeau Cordonnier, [1725-1734]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018.
Notes
Published suite of etchings includes an engraved title plate and 84 costume prints, the majority of them numbered at lower right, each with engraved caption title. No. 1-12 unsigned; no. 13-84 signed in plate: Gillot invenit ; Joullain sculpsit.
Costume designs for the ballet Les éléments which was first presented at the Palais of the Tuileries in 1721. Among the dancers was the young Louis XV for whom the costumes Habit du Roi (plates 16, 36, 48) and Habit du Soleil (plates 18, 35, 50) were probably designed.
"Les Nouveaux Desseins ... ont été executés à l'aquarelle de Gillot quelques mois avant sa mort, en vue du ballet des Éléments ... C'est à l'occasion de la reprise de 1725 que Joullain a gravé la suite des costumes dessinés par Gillot." Cf. Populus.
Costume designs for the ballet Les éléments which was first presented at the Palais of the Tuileries in 1721. Among the dancers was the young Louis XV for whom the costumes Habit du Roi (plates 16, 36, 48) and Habit du Soleil (plates 18, 35, 50) were probably designed.
"Les Nouveaux Desseins ... ont été executés à l'aquarelle de Gillot quelques mois avant sa mort, en vue du ballet des Éléments ... C'est à l'occasion de la reprise de 1725 que Joullain a gravé la suite des costumes dessinés par Gillot." Cf. Populus.
Description
1 unnumbered plate, 84 prints : hand colored etching ; 19.5 x 13 cm
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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