Accession number
PML 198162, fol. 77, no. 1
Published
[Paris] : [Gregoire Dupuis], [18th century]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018.
Notes
Unsigned.
Two theatrical costume studies on a single plate; the figure at left being a reverse copy of Gillot's "Montmenil de la Comédie Françoise dans son habit de valet", from his series of prints entitled "Les portraits d'acteurs", and the second, at right, an unidentified figure in a wide brimmed hat.
After Claude Gillot; both figures based on studies included in a drawing featuring four figures in theatrical costume which originally formed part of an album of thirty-three drawings of theatrical subjects by Claude Gillot, with three of the four figures appearing in series of 10 etchings by Gillot described by Populus under the collective title "Les portraits d'acteurs"; the bound album of drawings since broken up and the bulk of the individual drawings sold in 2004 by Galerie de Bayser. Cf. Tonkovich.
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 plate mark.
Two theatrical costume studies on a single plate; the figure at left being a reverse copy of Gillot's "Montmenil de la Comédie Françoise dans son habit de valet", from his series of prints entitled "Les portraits d'acteurs", and the second, at right, an unidentified figure in a wide brimmed hat.
After Claude Gillot; both figures based on studies included in a drawing featuring four figures in theatrical costume which originally formed part of an album of thirty-three drawings of theatrical subjects by Claude Gillot, with three of the four figures appearing in series of 10 etchings by Gillot described by Populus under the collective title "Les portraits d'acteurs"; the bound album of drawings since broken up and the bulk of the individual drawings sold in 2004 by Galerie de Bayser. Cf. Tonkovich.
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 plate mark.
Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark: 156 x 223 mm; sheet: 159 x 225 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, at left, a French comic actor (identified elsewhere as Montmenil) in the costume of a valet or manservant, standing full length, facing three-quarters to the right, holding a wide brimmed hat in his hands and wearing a coat with a lace collar over a waistcoat and short, baggy pantaloons; at right, a young man dressed in the costume of a gardener or country gentleman, with a sleeveless coat over a doublet, loose, ungathered "petticoat" breeches, and a wide brimmed hat cocked in the front.
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