Habit de Roy: a man wearing a tonnelet decorated with rosettes, a crown and a turban with feathers 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: 5 13/16 x 3 3/16 in. (14.8 x 8.1 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
2012.136.377.2
Tags
MenFeathers
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