Accession number
PML 198162, fol. 101, no. 2
Creator
Cochin, Charles Nicolas, 1688-1754, engraver.
Published
[A Paris] : [Chez chez L. Surugue], [1750]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018.
Notes
Title from finished, lettered state.
2nd state of 3, as described by Populus, before all letters and with Gillot's name, which is present in the 1st state, effaced.
3rd state of this print is signed "Gillot Pinx." and "Cochin Sculp.", and lettered: La colation préparée dans un jardin / A Paris chez L. Surugue Graveur du Roy, rue des Noyers attenant le magasin de papier / vis-à-vis St-Yves, 1750.
Print is one of a set of 3 prints after drawings by Gillot originally intended by the artist to comprise part of a projected suite of 6 designs to serve as models for tapestries; recorded by Populus under the title, "Les quatre saisons représentées par quatre nations".
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).
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
2nd state of 3, as described by Populus, before all letters and with Gillot's name, which is present in the 1st state, effaced.
3rd state of this print is signed "Gillot Pinx." and "Cochin Sculp.", and lettered: La colation préparée dans un jardin / A Paris chez L. Surugue Graveur du Roy, rue des Noyers attenant le magasin de papier / vis-à-vis St-Yves, 1750.
Print is one of a set of 3 prints after drawings by Gillot originally intended by the artist to comprise part of a projected suite of 6 designs to serve as models for tapestries; recorded by Populus under the title, "Les quatre saisons représentées par quatre nations".
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).
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; image: 185 x 185 mm; sheet: 215 x 194 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 banquet in laid out under the trees, with a buffet set up with a display of fine silver on a table at center; an decorated basin holding wine bottles sit on the ground in front of the buffet, and at left and right are figures representing the four nations of (at left) France and Italy, and (at right) Spain and Holland; within border, with a garland of grapes and fruit at head of composition.
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