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Plate for The Fish and the Fireworks, Fable Sixteen, in Fables Nouvelles, Dediées au Roy

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Plate for The Fish and the Fireworks, Fable Sixteen, in Fables Nouvelles, Dediées au Roy

Claude Gillot | Gregoire Dupuis | Lamotte-Houdar

1719

Medium

Etching

Tags

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)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1934

Classification

Books

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Claude Gillot

1673–1722 • France

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

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The festival of Diana, interrupted by satyrs (Feste de Diane, troublée par des Satyres): nymphs gathered around the bust of Diana in a stone niche at center, surprised by the arrival of satyrs from either side, from 'Les Bacchanales; Quatres Festes'

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