Study of animal heads
n.d.
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Michel N. Benisovitch
Accession Number
50.514.16
Tags
Art Historical Context
Claude Gillot's *Study of Animal Heads* (n.d.) invites visitors into the meticulous world of early 18th-century Frenchmaking. This delicate print from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department captures the expressive heads of goats and sheep rendered with fine lines that highlight their textured fur, alert ears, and soulful gazes. Donated as a gift from Michel N. Benisovitch, it exemplifies Gillot's as an artist who bridged Baroque precision with emerging Rococo lightness. Gillot (167–1722), a pivotal figure in French art, was a skilled engraver and teacher to Antoine Wa...
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