Accession number
PML 198162, fol. 95
Creator
Gillot, Claude, 1673-1722, printmaker.
Published
[Paris] : [Chez Huquier], [1722-1737]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018.
Notes
Title from finished state of print.
The finished state of this print, as published by Huqier, is numbered "1" at upper right and lettered: Apollon / Livre de Portières / Inventées et Gravées à l'eau-forte par Gillot Peintre du Roi. / A Paris chez Huquier vis-à-vis le grand Châtelet Avec priv. du Roi.
"From a series of six designs for folding screens or tapestries. The whole set was meant to be engraved by Gillot after his own designs; however the artist died in 1722, leaving five plates unfinished and another (Thetis) lost. The unfinished plates were bought by Parisian publisher Gabriel Huquier, who commissioned Charles Nicolas Cochin to finish them and to replace the missing plate by a new one engraved by him after Gillot's preparatory drawing (1737). The plates remained in Huquier's possession until his death in 1772, when they were sold to Jacques François Chéreau."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalog.
2nd state of 4, as described by Populus, before all letters; an intermediary unfinished state of Gillot's preliminary etching showing additional work by a later hand (presumably Cochin's), and ultimately completed circa 1737 by Ch. N. Cochin fils.
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 platemark.
The finished state of this print, as published by Huqier, is numbered "1" at upper right and lettered: Apollon / Livre de Portières / Inventées et Gravées à l'eau-forte par Gillot Peintre du Roi. / A Paris chez Huquier vis-à-vis le grand Châtelet Avec priv. du Roi.
"From a series of six designs for folding screens or tapestries. The whole set was meant to be engraved by Gillot after his own designs; however the artist died in 1722, leaving five plates unfinished and another (Thetis) lost. The unfinished plates were bought by Parisian publisher Gabriel Huquier, who commissioned Charles Nicolas Cochin to finish them and to replace the missing plate by a new one engraved by him after Gillot's preparatory drawing (1737). The plates remained in Huquier's possession until his death in 1772, when they were sold to Jacques François Chéreau."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalog.
2nd state of 4, as described by Populus, before all letters; an intermediary unfinished state of Gillot's preliminary etching showing additional work by a later hand (presumably Cochin's), and ultimately completed circa 1737 by Ch. N. Cochin fils.
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 platemark.
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 271 x 175 mm; plate mark: 299 x 182 mm; sheet: 301 x 185 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 for a folding screen or a tapestry, with Apollo seated on a throne of clouds beneath a baldachin, and hovering above a tripod with Python coiled around its legs; in ornamental frame incorporating three small medallions with scenes illustrating the myths of Apollo, and flanked by the figure of an aged priest, at left, and a priestess, at right, each standing beside a smoking brazier, the priestess swinging a censer.
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