Accession number
PML 198162, fol. 31, no. 3
Creator
Scotin, G. (Gérard), 1643-1715, etcher.
Published
[Paris] : [publisher not identified], [1711?]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
One of 6 etchings executed by G. Scotin after designs by Claude Gillot to illustrate the 2nd edition of Jean Baptiste Lully's tragic opera "Amadis" (A Paris : A l'entrée de la porte de l'Academie royale de musique, 1711), the illustrations each appearing at the head of the Prologue and the 5 acts of the printed work.
Numbered "132" within the plate at upper left.
Sheet partially trimmed within 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).
One of 6 etchings executed by G. Scotin after designs by Claude Gillot to illustrate the 2nd edition of Jean Baptiste Lully's tragic opera "Amadis" (A Paris : A l'entrée de la porte de l'Academie royale de musique, 1711), the illustrations each appearing at the head of the Prologue and the 5 acts of the printed work.
Numbered "132" within the plate at upper left.
Sheet partially trimmed within 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 ; image: 104 x 180 mm; sheet: 114 x 194 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 Amadis and Oriane asleep beneath a tree at the water's edge; at left, an enormous monster emerges from the water with its mouth agape, revealing a group of female figures, one of whom reach's out to tap Oriane with a wand; at right, a figure clad in armor similarly touches Amadis with a wand as another female figure stands looking on.
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