Four Commedia dell'Arte Figures: Harlequin "en femme," Mezzetin(?), Scaramouche, and Harlequin

early 18th century

Claude Gillot

Associated Names
Claude Gillot

Artist, French, 1673 - 1722

The image shows four sketches of individuals standing on a flat surface. The first person is wearing flowing garments with a large headdress, the next person has a hunched posture and is dressed in a long-sleeved shirt and loose pants, the third person is wearing a long coat and hat, and the fourth person is depicted in a patterned outfit and head covering while holding sticks or batons. The background is plain with no additional details. There is a Roman numeral 'XV' in the upper left corner and the word 'Gillot' in the lower right corner.

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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: 6.3 × 11 cm (2 1/2 × 4 5/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2022.40.19

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. 23, fig. 34.

Inscriptions

upper left in pen and black ink: XV

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