Habit de Faune: a faun wearing a tonnelet with a flute attached, a cane in his right hand and vines around his horns, from 'New designs for costumes' (Nouveaux desseins d'habillements à l'usage des balets operas et comedies)

Q: When was "Habit de Faune: a faun wearing a tonnelet with a flute attached, a cane in his right hand and vines around his horns, from 'New designs for costumes' (Nouveaux desseins d'habillements à l'usage des balets operas et comedies)" created?

This artwork was created ca. 1721.

Q: Is "Habit de Faune: a faun wearing a tonnelet with a flute attached, a cane in his right hand and vines around his horns, from 'New designs for costumes' (Nouveaux desseins d'habillements à l'usage des balets operas et comedies)" in the public domain?

Yes, Habit de Faune: a faun wearing a tonnelet with a flute attached, a cane in his right hand and vines around his horns, from 'New designs for costumes' (Nouveaux desseins d'habillements à l'usage des balets operas et comedies) is in the public domain and available for free download under CC0 license.

Claude Gillot|François Joullain

ca. 1721

Habit de Faune: a faun wearing a tonnelet with a flute attached, a cane in his right hand and vines around his horns, from 'New designs for costumes' (Nouveaux desseins d'habillements à l'usage des balets operas et comedies) by Claude Gillot|François Joullain

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

image: 5 7/8 x 3 1/8 in. (14.9 x 8 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011

Accession Number

2012.136.377.4

Tags

Fauns

Art Historical Context

Step into the whimsical world of 18th French theater with *Habit de Faune* from Gillot's *Nouveaux desseins dhabillements à l'usage des balets,éras et comédies* (New Designs for Costumes for Ballets,as, and Comedies), etched around 1721 by François Joullain. enchanting print captures a lively faun—drawn from classical mythology as a playful, horned woodland spirit—adorned in a tonnelet (a short, pleated skirt), with a flute tucked into his belt, a cane in his right hand, and vines twining his horns. At just 5 7/8 x 3 1/8 inches, it's a precise blueprint for performers in the opulent ballets an...

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

Habit de Faune: a faun wearing a tonnelet with a flute attached, a cane in his right hand and vines around his horns, from 'New designs for costumes' (Nouveaux desseins d'habillements à l'usage des balets operas et comedies)

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