Accession number
PML 198162, fol. 90, no. 1
Creator
Gillot, Claude, 1673-1722, printmaker.
Published
[Paris] : [publisher not identified], [between 1709 and 1711?]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018.
Notes
Title from item.
"The plate is known in three states. In the first (illustrated by Populus) the space below the title is left blank for a calendar to be pasted on. This is filled in the second state with the etched scene with Fraud, and has the address of de Rochefort in Paris. In the third state the address is removed."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalog.
3rd state, with the scene of Fraud below the title but with the imprint removed.
Companion print to Gillot's "La Justice qui detruit d'un seul de ses raions la fortune des agioteurs".
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 platemark.
"The plate is known in three states. In the first (illustrated by Populus) the space below the title is left blank for a calendar to be pasted on. This is filled in the second state with the etched scene with Fraud, and has the address of de Rochefort in Paris. In the third state the address is removed."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalog.
3rd state, with the scene of Fraud below the title but with the imprint removed.
Companion print to Gillot's "La Justice qui detruit d'un seul de ses raions la fortune des agioteurs".
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 platemark.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 219 x 254 mm; sheet: 228 x 267 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 four scenes from the life of a speculator, who with the help of Fraud, Violence and Cruelty plus a modicum of arithmetic, has raised himself from the role of lackey in the ante-chamber to luxury of the salon; each scene has its own explanatory lettering, with an allegorical morality scene in the center surmounted by the title. Cf. British Museum online catalog.
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