Claude Gillot or Studio (1678-1722)

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Claude Gillot or Studio (1678-1722)

Seven Commedia dell'Arte Figures

red chalk, squared in red chalk, fragmentary watermark armorial 127 x 241mm.

Literature

M. Eidelberg, Watteau and Gillot: A point of contact, The Burlington Magazine, 1973, CXV, fig. 60

Exhibited

New York, William H. Schab Gallery, Los Angeles, County Museum and Indianapolis, Museum of Art, Woodner Collection II, Old Master Drawings from the XV to XVIII Century, 1973, no. 93, illustrated

Lot Essay

Martin Eidelberg suggests that this drawing and a version of the composition by Watteau at Darmstadt are both copies after a lost drawing by Gillot. Drawings related to the man on the extreme left and the shepherdess at the far right are in the Musée Carnavalet and the Norton Simon Museum of Art

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