The Passion for Gambling

The Passion for Gambling by Claude Gillot|Jacques Gabriel Huquier

Medium

Etching, second state

Dimensions

sheet: 10 1/4 x 15 7/8 in. (26 x 40.3 cm) image: 8 11/16 x 14 5/16 in. (22 x 36.3 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1957

Accession Number

57.581.39(4)

Tags

Male NudesFemale NudesGamblingSatyrsCoins

About the Artist

Claude Gillot|Jacques Gabriel Huquier · 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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