Plate for The Fish and the Fireworks, Fable Sixteen, in Fables Nouvelles, Dediées au Roy
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Book: 10 1/16 × 8 1/8 × 1 7/16 in. (25.5 × 20.6 × 3.7 cm) Plate: 3 3/16 × 4 in. (8.1 × 10.2 cm)
Classification
Books
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1934
Accession Number
34.15(342)
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the enchanting world of 18th-century French with this etching plate from *Fables Nouvelles, Dées au Roy* (New Fables Dedicated to the), created in 1719. by Claude Gillot—a pioneering painter and engraver who influenced Antoine Watteau and the Rococo style—in collaboration with engraver Grégoire Dupuis andulist Antoine Houdar de Motte, it depicts *The Fish and the Fireworks Fable Sixteen. Produced during the Regency period under Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, while young Louis XV ascended the throne, the book reflects the era's delight in moralistic tales echoing Jean de La Fontaine's ...
About the Artist
Claude Gillot|Gregoire Dupuis|Lamotte-Houdar · 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