Accession number
PML 198162, fol. 76, no. 4
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 a counterproof of the print described by Populus as 484A, an etching by Pierre de Rochefort after a drawing by Claude Gillot, another etching of which was executed by Rochefort and issued as a frontispiece plate in Odes de La Motte (Paris : Depuis, 1707). Note that this 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 (or possibly a torch) lies on the ground directly behind her feet, with the top pointing to the margin at right.
Counterproof; the background figures touched with pen and black ink and the putto's lyre 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 a counterproof of the print described by Populus as 484A, an etching by Pierre de Rochefort after a drawing by Claude Gillot, another etching of which was executed by Rochefort and issued as a frontispiece plate in Odes de La Motte (Paris : Depuis, 1707). Note that this 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 (or possibly a torch) lies on the ground directly behind her feet, with the top pointing to the margin at right.
Counterproof; the background figures touched with pen and black ink and the putto's lyre 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 85 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
Design reversed, with the figure of Lyric Poetry standing with one arm resting on a pyramid topped monument at far right; with the other arm, she points to the left as she looks up at a slight 3/4 angle to the left 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 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 and in the background at left, nymphs and satyrs dance before a herm standing at far left.
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