Accession number
PML 198162, fol. 90, no. 2
Creator
Gillot, Claude, 1673-1722, printmaker.
Published
[Paris] : [Chez Vanheck], [between 1716 and 1718?]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018.
Notes
Title from item.
Plate in three states as described by Populus; in the first, the framed space below the title is left blank for a calendar to be pasted on. This is filled in the second state with an etched scene of a figure representing the Crown accompanied by the figure of Abundance, with the address of de Rochefort in Paris. In the third state the address is removed.
3rd state, with the scene of the Crown and the figure of Abundance inset below the title but with the imprint removed.
Companion print to Gillot's "L'Agioteur elevé par la Fortune au plus haut degré de la richesse et de l'abondance".
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.
Plate in three states as described by Populus; in the first, the framed space below the title is left blank for a calendar to be pasted on. This is filled in the second state with an etched scene of a figure representing the Crown accompanied by the figure of Abundance, with the address of de Rochefort in Paris. In the third state the address is removed.
3rd state, with the scene of the Crown and the figure of Abundance inset below the title but with the imprint removed.
Companion print to Gillot's "L'Agioteur elevé par la Fortune au plus haut degré de la richesse et de l'abondance".
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: 217 x 254 mm; sheet: 226 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 the figure of Justice with crown and and holding a pair of scales above the title; she surmby three fleur de lys and flanked by two putti wielding a sword and birch flogs(?), and men and women flee down two sets of descending stone steps shown on either side of the composition as bags of coins and other symbols of wealth tumble down from the steps into a smoky void below. Inset at lower center of the design, where the calendar would have been placed in the first state of the print, is a scene showing two female figures representing Abundance or Prosperity and the Crown, seated side by side on the right hand side below a canopy, with a group of men and women kneeling reverently before them beneath a tree at far left.
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