Errant pendant la nuit...
n.d.
Medium
Etching, third state
Dimensions
image: 8 7/8 x 13 1/8 in. (22.5 x 33.4 cm), trimmed with inscription cut off
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1957
Accession Number
57.581.36
Tags
Art Historical Context
Claude Gillot's *Errant pendant la nuit... (Wandering at Night...), an undated etching in its third state, captures the artist's playful yet masterful command of printmaking during the early 18th century. a French painter and engr (1673–1722), Gillot bridged the ornate Baroque era and the emerging Rococo style, influencing masters like Antoine Watteau, whom he briefly taught. This work, now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of's Drawings and Prints department, measures 8⅞ × 13⅛ inches and was acquired through The Elisha Whittelsey Collection in 1957. Notably trimmed, with its inscription lost,...
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