Habit d'Ixion: a man wearing a tonnelet with a sword in the belt, a turban with one large feather on his head, from 'New designs for costumes' (Nouveaux desseins d'habillements à l'usage des balets operas et comedies)
Claude Gillot|François Joullain
ca. 1721
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
image: 6 x 3 3/8 in. (15.3 x 8.5 cm)
Classification
Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.377.3
Tags
SwordsMenFeathers
About the Artist
Claude Gillot|François Joullain · 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