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Errant pendant la nuit dans un lieu solitaire ... [print] / Gillot inv. et sculp.

Accession number
PML 198162, fol. 26, no. 1
Creator
Gillot, Claude, 1673-1722, printmaker.
Published
18th century.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018.
Notes
From a set of two plates commonly known under the title "Les Sabbats", drawn and etched by Gillot and finished with the burin by engraver Jean Audran.
Four columns of verses engraved in French below image: Errant pendant la nuit dans un lieu solitaire ... Ses rayons seuls guerissent de la peur.
Sheet closely trimmed to plate mark.
Library owns the companion plate to this print (see PML 198162.18).
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: 221 x 333 mm; sheet: 248 x 337 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 witches' sabbath at night, presided over by a necromancer sitting on a rock with a book on his knees; above him flies an owl; on the right, several figures dancing round in a circle.
Classification
Department