[L'Éclipse] [print] / Gillot inv. & sculp.

Accession number: 
PML 198162, fol. 64, no. 4
Author: 
Gillot, Claude, 1673-1722, printmaker.
Published: 
[Paris] : [Gregoire Dupuis], [1719]
Description: 
1 print : etching ; image: 75 x 94 mm; sheet: 94 x 111 mm
Credit: 
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018.
Notes: 

Engraving by Gillot issued as a headpiece illustration on page 105 (Book II, fable 12), of M. de la Motte's "Fables nouvelles" (Paris : Gregoire Dupuis, 1719).
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).

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 a town square, where a crowd of curious spectators observe an eclipse; at left, a man raises both arms to the sky, conversing with the figures at far left; in the centre, one woman looks above at the moon, holding a strip of cloth before her eyes; at centre right, a group of figures watch the reflection of the phenomenon in a tub of water; at far right, a man, seen from behind, is seated on the floor stretching his left arm upwards; at top in the centre, half of the moon can be seen.

Classification: 
Print
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Department: 
Printed Books