Accession number
PML 198162, fol. 30, no. 2
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: Maintes Nimphes enchantresses ... Si c'eut êté quelque gent Damoiseau.
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: Maintes Nimphes enchantresses ... Si c'eut êté quelque gent Damoiseau.
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: 173 x 355 mm; sheet: 221 x 368 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 a group of nymphs huddled around a statue of Diana standing in a niche in a rocky and forested landscape; from the left and right, leering bands of satyrs approach as the nymphs shrink away in alarm.
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