L'Education (Education)
1651 to 1700
Medium
etching and engraving
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1951.10.28
Art Historical Context
Claude Gillot's *L'Education (Education)*, etching and engraving from the 17th to early 18th century captures the artist's mastery of printmaking during a pivotal era in French art. Gillot (active c. 1673–1722), a influential engraver and painter, bridged the ornate Baroque style with the emerging lightness of Rococo. As the teacher of Antoine Watteau he pioneered scenes of gallant gatherings and moral vignettes, making this work a precursor to the fêtes galantes that defined later French decorative arts. Housed in the National Gallery of Art's Rosenwald Collection (Department CG-E), it exempl...
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