Accession number
PML 198162, fol. 26, no. 2
Creator
Gillot, Claude, 1673-1722, printmaker.
Published
[Paris] : [publisher not identified], [18th century].
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018.
Notes
From a set of two plates known under the title "Les Sabbats", drawn and etched by Gillot and finished with the burin by engraver Jean Audran.
Three columns of verses engraved in French below image: Est-ce un enchantement, est ce une illusion! ... Des monstres dis-je, Et d'autres des chimères.
Sheet closely 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).
Three columns of verses engraved in French below image: Est-ce un enchantement, est ce une illusion! ... Des monstres dis-je, Et d'autres des chimères.
Sheet closely 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 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, with, in the middle, a horned male figure presiding over the torture of two male figures, tied to a spinning device; on the left, two female figures on a broom, an elegant woman mounted on the skeleton of a four-legged creature, and a stag-horned man mounting a lion-headed horse.
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