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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1960.165
People
Claude Gillot, French (Langres 1673 - 1722 Paris)
Title
Standing Man Dressed in the Costume of a Turkish Dignitary; verso: Monk in Prayer
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Actor Dressed as Turkish Dignitary
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296110

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and red chalk wash on cream antique laid paper, laid down on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink; verso: red chalk
Dimensions
21.4 x 14.5 cm (8 7/16 x 5 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: none visible--laid down
  • inscription: across top, black ink: porte l'épee du grand aga
  • inscription: old mount, verso, center, brown ink: 67
  • inscription: old mount, verso, lower center, graphite: 1
  • inscription: old mount, verso, lower left, graphite: From Gillot 1960.165
  • inscription: old mount, verso, lower center, graphite: 4 [crossed out with a backwards "S"]
  • inscription: old mount, verso, lower right, graphite: 7 [underlined]
  • watermark: old mount: partial necklace with cross

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Charles E. Slatkin Gallery, New York; Galerie Cailleux, Paris; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gifts for Special Uses Fund (Henry P. McIlhenny), inv. no. 1960.165

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gifts for Special Uses Fund (Henry P. McIlhenny)
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
1960.165
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Dewey F. Mosby, “Claude Gillot’s “Embarkation for the Isle of Cythera” and its Relationship to Watteau", Master Drawings, Master Drawings Association (New York, 1974), vol. 12, no. 1, Spring, pp. 49-56, 102-103, p. 55-n.16
  • Jennifer Tonkovich, "Claude Gillot and the Theater with a Catalogue of Drawings" (2002), Rutgers University, cat. no. 48, pp. 312, 314, 316-17, 566
  • Jennifer Tonkovich, "Claude Gillot's Costume Designs for the Paris Opéra: Some New Sources", The Burlington Magazine, The Burlington Magazine Publications, Ltd. (London, 2005), vol. 147, no. 1225, April, pp. 248-52, pp. 248-52
  • Seth Gopin and Eveline Sint Nicolaas, Jean Baptiste Vanmour: Peintre de la Sublime Porte, 1671-1737, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes (Valenciennes, 2010), p. 102
  • Jeff Moronvalle, “Le Recueil Ferriol (1714) et la mode des turqueries", Editions Garnier Frères (Dix-huitième siècle, 2012), vol. 1, no. 44, pp. 425-46, p. 434
  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr., "A New Drawing by Greuze at the Fogg", Master Drawings, Master Drawings Association (New York, 2015), vol. 53, no. 4, Winter, pp. 497-502, p. 502
  • 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. 51, repr.; verso repr. p. 153
  • Jennifer Tonkovich, Claude Gillot: Satire in the Age of Reason, exh. cat., The Morgan Library & Museum (New York, 2023), pp. 101-103

Verification Level

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