Accession number
PML 198162, fol. 30, no. 1
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
Caption title.
From a suite of four prints listed by Populus under the collective title "Les bacchanales ou Les quatre festes".
Three columns of verse, signed "Dubruit", engraved in French below caption title: Que l'on n'accuse point Bacchus ... Lui donner plus amour qu'elle n'a pris de vin.
Sheet closely trimmed to 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).
From a suite of four prints listed by Populus under the collective title "Les bacchanales ou Les quatre festes".
Three columns of verse, signed "Dubruit", engraved in French below caption title: Que l'on n'accuse point Bacchus ... Lui donner plus amour qu'elle n'a pris de vin.
Sheet closely trimmed to 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: 175 x 357 mm; sheet: 220 x 369 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 satyrs and nymphs celebrating Bacchus; at center, a nymph and a satyr decorate a niche containing a statue of the god with garlands, and offerings of wine and fruit surround the shrine, as other figures play music, dance and carouse in the rocky, forested landscape at left and right.
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