Accession number
PML 198162, fol. 87, no. 2
Creator
Gillot, Claude, 1673-1722, printmaker.
Published
[Paris] : [publisher not identified], [1718?]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018.
Notes
Caption title from finished state.
1st state, before all letters.
Print shows a scene from Nolant de Fatouville's comedy of the same title, originally performed in 1685. Cf. Populus.
Populus suggests a possible date of 1718 for this print, to correspond with that of the 1718 revival of Nolant de Fatouville's play, although he acknowledges that the print could have been executed at an earlier date following the work's first staging.
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 to platemark.
1st state, before all letters.
Print shows a scene from Nolant de Fatouville's comedy of the same title, originally performed in 1685. Cf. Populus.
Populus suggests a possible date of 1718 for this print, to correspond with that of the 1718 revival of Nolant de Fatouville's play, although he acknowledges that the print could have been executed at an earlier date following the work's first staging.
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 to platemark.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 167 x 225 mm; sheet: 198 x 238 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 courtroom scene, with Scaramouche presiding as judge, seated at center on a chair placed on a dais; standing before him in the foreground to the right is Colombine, dressed as an advocate and pleading her case; directly behind sits Mezzetino, writing at a table and acting as notary; at left sits Harlequin as the accused, watched over by his jailer, Polichinelle, and Pierrot, who stands on guard with a gun over his shoulder; behind Scaramouche, at left and right, sit nine men and women dressed as advocates, variously engaged in the proceedings: a man at right yells while the man seated to his left covers his ears, another man lies face down, while two couples appear to flirt, and at left, a woman leans back with her hand to her forehead as if in a swoon.
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