Accession number
PML 198162, fol. 35, no. 1
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 lettered state as described by Populus.
One of a series of 17 etchings executed by Caylus after drawings by Claude Gillot.
Sheet 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).
One of a series of 17 etchings executed by Caylus after drawings by Claude Gillot.
Sheet 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: 153 x 198 mm; sheet: 182 x 210 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 two gentlemen engaged in a swordfight; two fallen duelers lie on the ground in the foreground, a man stands beside a horse in a trees in the background, and three men attend to a fourth at far left.
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