Six Studies of Commedia dell'Arte Actors: Polchinelle, Columbine, Pierrot, a Captain, Harlequin "en femme," and Scaramouche

early 18th century

Claude Gillot

Artist, French, 1673 - 1722

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black ink with gray wash over graphite on laid paper, irregularly trimmed and laid down on a sheet touched with faded blue watercolor, on an old album sheet; partially incised for transfer

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Donald Stone

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 7.7 × 16 cm (3 1/16 × 6 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2022.40.18


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

From an album (probably compiled in the 19th century) discovered in a private collection outside Paris c. 2004[1]; (Galerie de Bayser, Paris); purchased by 2006 by Donald Stone, New York [1942- 2020]; bequest to NGA, 2022.
[1] See Jennifer Tonkovich, "A New Album of Theater Drawings by Claude Gillot." Master Drawings 44, no. 4 (Winter, 2006): 464.

Associated Names

Bibliography

2006

  • Tonkovich, Jennifer. "A New Album of Theater Drawings by Claude Gillot." Master Drawings 44, no. 4 (Winter, 2006): no. 27, fig. 38

Inscriptions

upper left in pen and black ink: XII


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