Design for an Arabesque with Cupid and Psyche
Claude Gillot
1720–40
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 · 1673–1722
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