Peasant Musicians and Dancers

early 18th century

Claude Gillot

Associated Names
Claude Gillot

Artist, French, 1673 - 1722

The image shows four figures - two on the left who are musicians, one playing a violin and the other holding drumsticks, and two on the right who are dancing. The drawing is sketched in ink with minimal detail, focusing on the posture and actions of the figures rather than facial features.

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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 × 11.5 cm (2 3/8 × 4 1/2 in.), cut irregularly

  • Accession Number

    2022.40.20

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. 30, fig. 41.

Inscriptions

upper left in pen and black ink: XIX; by later hand, pen and brown ink: Gillot

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