Harlequin menaces Scaramouche with a Torch
Medium
Etching, second state
Dimensions
image: 7 5/16 x 8 7/16 in. (18.6 x 21.4 cm), trimmed to image
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1963
Accession Number
63.562.13(6)
Tags
MenWomenAcrobats
About the Artist
Claude Gillot|Jacques Gabriel Huquier · 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