Accession number
PML 198162, fol. 91, no. 1
Creator
Gillot, Claude, 1673-1722, printmaker.
Published
A Paris : Chez P. de Rochefort graveur rue Saint-Jacques au Palmier, [1709]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018.
Notes
Title from item.
Date of publication from Populus.
Print commemorating the severe winter of 1709, framing a blank rectangular space intended to accommodate a calendar.
Companion print to Gillot's "Cerés affligée de voir la terre sterile".
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.
Date of publication from Populus.
Print commemorating the severe winter of 1709, framing a blank rectangular space intended to accommodate a calendar.
Companion print to Gillot's "Cerés affligée de voir la terre sterile".
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: 221 x 255 mm; sheet: 238 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, in the upper portion of the design, a moonlit scene with the figure of an old man representing winter warming his hands over a brazier; two bundles of firewood are visible to his left, and he is flanked by two large barren and leafless trees at left and right; he surmounts an architectural frame hung with icicles, surrounding a blank rectangle where a calendar was to have been inserted; at left and right are six small vignettes (three on either side) illustrating the hardships of the recent winter, including scenes of closed theaters, dead livestock, interrupted trade, the closing of the palace to parliament, etc.
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