Scene from "The Tomb of Master André", c. 1705/1708

Not on View

Medium

red chalk, watercolor, and pen and black ink over graphite, with corrections in white gouache, on laid paper mounted on paper

Dimensions

overall: 16 x 22.1 cm (6 5/16 x 8 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

2004.77.1

Artists / Makers

Claude Gillot (artist) French, 1673 - 1722

Image Use

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Inscription

upper right in brown ink: 35; another number in pen and brown ink at upper left, possibly also 35, nearly obliterated by the framing lines in pen and dark brown ink.

Provenance

Jean Denis Lempereur, Paris [1701 - 1779] (Lugt 1740). (Galerie de Bayser S.A., Paris); purchased 2004 by NGA.

Associated Names

Galerie de Bayser

Exhibition History

2004: Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005 (no cat.).

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 92-93, 280, no. 37 (color).

2023: Claude Gillot: Satire in the Age of Reason, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2023.

Bibliography

2006: Tonkovich, Jennifer. "A New Album of Theater Drawings by Claude Gillot." Master Drawings 44, no. 4 (Winter, 2006): 465-467, 475, no. 1, 484 note 3, fig. 1.