The Actors Making Ready (recto); Studies of the Holy Family and Saint John the Baptist (verso)

The Actors Making Ready (recto); Studies of the Holy Family and Saint John the Baptist (verso) by Claude Gillot

Medium

Pen and brown ink and brush and gray wash (recto) and pen and brown ink and brush and gray wash, with touches of pen and black ink and traces of red chalk (verso), on cream laid paper

Dimensions

15.8 × 26 cm (6 1/4 × 10 1/4 in.)

Classification

pen and ink drawings

Department

Prints and Drawings

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Accession Number

74190

About the Artist

Claude Gillot · 16731722

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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