Feste de Faune (The feast of the faun from, Bacchannales or the Quatres Festes)
Claude Gillot
c.1693-1722
Medium
Etching on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 17.2 × 35.8 cm (6 13/16 × 14 1/8 in.); Plate: 22 × 37.3 cm (8 11/16 × 14 11/16 in.); Sheet: 30.5 × 46.3 cm (12 1/16 × 18 1/4 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
31679
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