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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1991.163
People
Claude Gillot, French (Langres 1673 - 1722 Paris)
Title
Feast of Faunus
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1707
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/294453

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red chalk and traces of graphite on cream antique laid paper, partially incised, laid down on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
16.1 x 36.2 cm (6 5/16 x 14 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: Bird [encircled]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Possibly Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville, Paris, sold [through his sale, January 18-28, 1779, part of lot 396]. Unidentified collector, sold [through Hôtel des Ventes Mobilières, Paris, May 4-5, 1843, lot 115]. Possibly [Charles E. Slatkin Gallery, New York], sold; to Agnes Mongan, Cambridge, by 1960

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Agnes Mongan
Accession Year
1991
Object Number
1991.163
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Catalogue d'une collection de tableaux anciens, des écoles francaise, italienne, espagnole, falmande, hollandaise et allemande, dessins anciens, estampes, petite curiosité, terres guites, porcelaine de chine, bordures dorées, etc..., auct. cat., Hôtel des Ventes Mobilières (Paris, May 4-5, 1843), p. 13, lot 115
  • Hippolyte Mireur, Dictionnaire des ventes d’art faites en France et à l’Etranger pendant les XVIIIme & XIXme siècles, Souillé (Paris, 1911-1912), vol. 3, p. 310
  • Bernard Populus, Claude Gillot (1673-1722): catalogue de l’oeuvre gravé, Société pour l'Étude de la Gravure Française (Paris, 1930), p. 79
  • Heinz-Joachim Poley, "Claude Gillot: Leben und Werk 1673-1722, ein Beitrag zur französischen Kunstgeschichte des XVIII. Jahrhunderts" (1938), University of Basel, p. 47
  • Edgar Munhall, “Claude Gillot’s 'Feast of Pan'", Yale Art Gallery Bulletin, Yale University Art Gallery (1962), vol. 27, no. 1-2, April, pp. 22-35, p. 27
  • Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann and Anne-Marie Logan, European Drawings and Watercolors in the Yale University Art Gallery: 1500-1900, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 1970), vol. 1, p. 28
  • Hervé Oursel, From Poussin to Puvis de Chavannes: A Loan Exhibition of French Drawings from the Collections of the Musée des Beaux-Arts at Lille, exh. cat., Heim Gallery (London, 1974-1975), under cat. no. 45, n.p.
  • Eighteenth & Nineteenth Century French Drawings & Prints with a Selection of Drawings by J.A.D Ingres, checklist, Archer M. Huntington Gallery (Austin, 1977), cat. no. 12, n.p.
  • Élisabeth Launay, Les frères Goncourt: collectionneurs de dessins (Paris, 1991), pp. 309-10
  • Sophie Raux, Catalogue des dessins français du XVIIIe siècle de Claude Gillot à Hubert Robert: Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, 1995), pp. 90-91
  • Alan Wintermute, Watteau and His World: French Drawing from 1700 to 1750, exh. cat., Merrell Holberton Publishers / American Federation of Arts (London, 1999), p. 202
  • Jennifer Tonkovich, "Claude Gillot and the Theater with a Catalogue of Drawings" (2002), Rutgers University, p. 165
  • Suzanne Boorsch and John Marciari, Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery, exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, CT, 2006), pp. 184-85, 186-n.4
  • Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 53-54, repr. p. 53 as fig. 12
  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr. and Edouard Kopp, French Drawings from the Age of Claude, Poussin, Watteau, and Fragonard: Highlights from the Collection of the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022), cat. no. 49, repr.
  • Jennifer Tonkovich, Claude Gillot: Satire in the Age of Reason, exh. cat., The Morgan Library & Museum (New York, 2023), cat. no. 8, pp. 52-55, fig. 2.3

Exhibition History

  • Eighteenth & Nineteenth Century French Drawings & Prints with a Selection of Drawings by J.A.D. Ingres, Archer M. Huntington Gallery, Austin, 02/06/1977 - 03/20/1977
  • A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings from 1480 to 1940, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/25/2000 - 07/02/2000
  • Claude Gillot: Satire in the Age of Reason, The Morgan Library & Museum, 02/24/2023 - 05/28/2023

Verification Level

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