Design for an Arabesque with Cupid and Psyche

Claude Gillot

1720–40

Design for an Arabesque with Cupid and Psyche by Claude Gillot

Medium

Pen and gray ink, brush and gray wash

Dimensions

12 1/2 x 8 5/16 in. (31.8 x 21.1 cm)

Classification

Drawings|Ornament & Architecture

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1971

Accession Number

1971.513.38

Tags

CupidPsyche

About the Artist

Claude Gillot · 16731722

Artist known for his elegant designs done in the Rococo manner of Audran; also for his predilection for scenes from the 'comedia dell'arte.' Few paintings survive; his work is known mainly through drawings and etchings. Comment on works: Genre; History

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