Four Actresses in Theatrical Costume, c. 1721

Not on View

Medium

red and gray wash with pen and black ink over traces of black chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 14.4 × 20.2 cm (5 11/16 × 7 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Donald Stone

Accession Number

2022.40.46

Artists / Makers

Claude Gillot (artist) French, 1673 - 1722

Image Use

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Inscription

upper right: 32

Provenance

From an album (probably compiled in the 19th century) discovered in a private collection outside Paris c. 2004[1]. (Katrin Bellinger, Munich?). (Galerie de Bayser, Paris); purchased c. 2016 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. This drawing is from the album but not catalogued by Tonkovich.

Associated Names

Bellinger, Katrin, Ms.
Galerie de Bayser
Stone, Donald

Exhibition History

2016: Catalogue Biennale, Galerie de Bayser, Paris, 2016, part of no. 4.