Accession number
PML 198162, fol. 76, no. 1
Published
A Paris : Chez P. de Rochefort graveur rue St Jacques au Palmier, [1707?]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018.
Notes
Title from Populus.
Unsigned, possibly the print described by Populus as 484A; an etching by Pierre de Rochefort after a drawing by Claude Gillot, another etching of which (Populus 484) was executed by Rochefort and issued as a frontispiece plate in Odes de La Motte (Paris : Depuis, 1707). Note that the present print is not the same etching as the published frontispiece print described by Populus as no. 484; in this treatment of Gillot's design, the figure of Lyric Poetry stands with her head tilted slightly back at a 3/4 angle and a quiver of arrows lies on the ground directly behind her feet, with the top pointing to the margin at left.
First or early state; touched proof, with areas of the design painted over in ink wash (the torch at lower left being completely inked over), the background figures touched with pen and black ink, and Lyric Poetry's draped garment slightly touched with white.
Sheet closely trimmed to plate mark.
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).
Unsigned, possibly the print described by Populus as 484A; an etching by Pierre de Rochefort after a drawing by Claude Gillot, another etching of which (Populus 484) was executed by Rochefort and issued as a frontispiece plate in Odes de La Motte (Paris : Depuis, 1707). Note that the present print is not the same etching as the published frontispiece print described by Populus as no. 484; in this treatment of Gillot's design, the figure of Lyric Poetry stands with her head tilted slightly back at a 3/4 angle and a quiver of arrows lies on the ground directly behind her feet, with the top pointing to the margin at left.
First or early state; touched proof, with areas of the design painted over in ink wash (the torch at lower left being completely inked over), the background figures touched with pen and black ink, and Lyric Poetry's draped garment slightly touched with white.
Sheet closely trimmed to plate mark.
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).
Description
1 print : etching touched with black ink, ink wash, and white ; image: 140 x 78 mm; sheet: 149 x 81 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 Lyric Poetry standing with one arm resting on a pyramid topped monument at far left; with the other arm, she points to the right as she looks up at a slight 3/4 angle to the right at the winged figure of Fame who flies with her trumpet above at upper right; in the background at left is a palm tree, and at lower left, a putto sits on the stone base of the monument, playing a lyre-like instrument; a bow and quiver of arrows(?) lies behind Lyric Poetry's feet on the ground below him and in the background at right, nymphs and satyrs dance before a herm standing at far right.
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