Accession number
PML 198162, fol. 41, no. 2
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: 156 x 199 mm; sheet: 181 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 a sorceress standing beside a blasted tree, upon which at harpy is perched at far right; she holds up a book from which she appears to be conjuring a host of spirits which surround her as they fly through the air or rise from the grave; one of them appears to be pulling the book from her hands as she reaches out in alarm, perhaps indicating that she is losing control of the ritual proceedings.
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