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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1960.163
People
Claude Gillot, French (Langres 1673 - 1722 Paris)
Title
Standing Woman Dressed in the Costume of a Sultana
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Actress Dressed as Sultana
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296335

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink, red chalk and red chalk wash on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown and black ink, laid down on off-white antique laid paper
Dimensions
20.3 x 13.6 cm (8 x 5 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: none visible: drawing is laid down
  • inscription: mount, verso, center, brown ink: 66
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower left, graphite: 21
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower center, graphite: 4
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower center, graphite: 1960.163
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower right, graphite: 1

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Fogg Art Museum, 1960, inv. no. 1960.163

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gifts for Special Uses Fund (Henry P. McIlhenny)
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
1960.163
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Jennifer Tonkovich, "Claude Gillot's Costume Designs for the Paris Opéra: Some New Sources", The Burlington Magazine, The Burlington Magazine Publications, Ltd. (London, 2005), vol. 147, no. 1225, April, pp. 248-52, pp. 248-252, fig. 34
  • Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, "A Tale of Two Chapeaux: Fashion, Revolution, and David's Portrait of the Lavoisiers", Metropolitan Museum Journal, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 2022), vol. 57, pp. 67-84, pp. 74-75, repr. p. 75 as fig. 7
  • Jennifer Tonkovich, Claude Gillot: Satire in the Age of Reason, exh. cat., The Morgan Library & Museum (New York, 2023), pp. 101-103, fig. 3.40

Verification Level

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