Accession number
PML 198162, fol. 27, no. 2
Creator
Audran, Jean, 1667-1756, etcher, publisher.
Published
A Paris : Chez Audran graveur do Roy à l'Hotel Royal des Gobelins, 18th century.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018.
Notes
Caption title.
From a suite of four numbered prints etched by Jean Audran after Claude Gillot, illustrating human passions enacted by satyrs and recorded by Populus under the title, "Les passions des hommes exprimées par des satyrs."
Numbered as plate 2 above title.
Two columns of verse engraved in French below caption title: Voluptueux, modérez vos transports ... Qu'aprés avoir cent fois, pleuré vôtre naufrage.
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).
From a suite of four numbered prints etched by Jean Audran after Claude Gillot, illustrating human passions enacted by satyrs and recorded by Populus under the title, "Les passions des hommes exprimées par des satyrs."
Numbered as plate 2 above title.
Two columns of verse engraved in French below caption title: Voluptueux, modérez vos transports ... Qu'aprés avoir cent fois, pleuré vôtre naufrage.
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 ; image: 179 x 363 mm; sheet: 232 x 378 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 group of satyrs worshipping around a central figure of Eros, with wings and bow; female satyrs with small horns budding from their foreheads, cluster around the god, as the male satyrs approach with offerings or strike attitudes of supplication or despair.
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