Accession number
PML 198162, fol. 52, no. 1
Creator
Gillot, Claude, 1673-1722, printmaker.
Published
[Paris] : [Gregoire Dupuis], [1719]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018.
Notes
Engraving issued as a headpiece illustration on page vii, "Discours sur la fable", in M. de la Motte's "Fables nouvelles" (Paris : Gregoire Dupuis, 1719).
The 1st state as described by Populus, with the signature of Gillot as artist and engraver.
Sheet trimmed within 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).
The 1st state as described by Populus, with the signature of Gillot as artist and engraver.
Sheet trimmed within 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 and engraving ; image: 77 x 112 mm; sheet: 92 x 122 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
Illustration shows the main animals featured in the fables assembled in the background on an elevated terrace, under the shadow of a tree at right; in the middle of the terrace are a pile of books; in the foreground, from left to right: a group of children reading; at center, a young girl standing, listening to an old man who recounts a moral fable to her; next to him, at far right, another man is seated, teaching a young child; in between the young girl and the old man is a rug, above which flowers are scattered; above this, bees and a butterfly.
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