Satyrs Preparing for a Festival
Claude Gillot
n.d.
Medium
Pen, brown and black ink, over black chalk with pink wash; framing lines in pen and brown ink
Dimensions
6 1/4 x 8 1/2 in. (15.8 x 21.6 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1961
Accession Number
61.127.2
Tags
SatyrsTrees
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