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[La Poésie Lyrique accompagnée de son genie et de la Renommée] [print].

Accession number
PML 198162, fol. 76, no. 2
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; etching after a design by Claude Gillot, another etching of which was executed by Pierre de 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 the design is reversed, the figure of Lyric Poetry stands with her head tilted slightly back at a 3/4 angle, pointing to the left, with a quiver of arrows lies on the ground directly behind her feet, with the top pointing to the margin at right.
Touched impression, with areas of the design slightly touched with white and with red chalk.
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 white and red chalk ; image: 138 x 77 mm; sheet: 142 x 82 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 left 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 left; in the background at right is a palm tree, and at lower right, a putto sits on the decorated stone base of the monument, playing a lyre-like instrument; a quiver of arrows lies behind Lyric Poetry's feet on the ground below and in the background at left, nymphs and satyrs dance in the company of a braying donkey before a herm standing at far right.
Classification
Department