Design of a Flintlock, Side Plate, Butt Plate, and Trigger Guard, unnumbered plate from Nouveaux Desseins d'Arquebuserie Inventez et Gravez par Le Sr. Gillot

Design of a Flintlock, Side Plate, Butt Plate, and Trigger Guard, unnumbered plate from Nouveaux Desseins d'Arquebuserie Inventez et Gravez par Le Sr. Gillot by Claude Gillot

Medium

Etching, engraving

Dimensions

Sheet: 9 5/8 x 6 9/16 in. (24.4 x 16.6 cm)

Classification

Works on Paper-Engravings

Culture

French, Paris

Department

Arms and Armor

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Gift, 2016

Accession Number

2016.403.8

Tags

Ornament

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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