Accession number
PML 198162, fol. 34, no. 2
Creator
Scotin, G. (Gérard), 1643-1715, etcher.
Published
[Paris] : [E. Billiot?], [1713]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018.
Notes
Title from Populus.
One of a series of 6 engravings executed by Scotin after Claude Gillot to serve as an illustrations to the poem "Le Lutrin" in Oeuvres de Nicolas Boileau (Paris : E. Billiot, 1713).
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).
One of a series of 6 engravings executed by Scotin after Claude Gillot to serve as an illustrations to the poem "Le Lutrin" in Oeuvres de Nicolas Boileau (Paris : E. Billiot, 1713).
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 and engraving ; image: 189 x 128 mm; sheet: 210 x 142 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 night scene with several figures appearing to a young woman recining on a couch; in the right foreground two putti playing a game, on the left three putti seated at the foot of the couch, a female figure with bat wings hovering above the couch, and a woman and an old man appearing behind the young woman.
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