1960.164: Standing Woman in Phrygian Costume

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1960.164

People

Claude Gillot, French (Langres 1673 - 1722 Paris)

Title

Standing Woman in Phrygian Costume

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Actress in Phrygian Costume

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

18th century

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/296336

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink and red chalk wash on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink, laid down on cream antique laid paper

Dimensions

20.3 × 13.2 cm (8 × 5 3/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: none
• inscription: mount, verso, center, brown ink: 64
• inscription: mount, verso, lower left, graphite: 4
• inscription: mount, verso, lower center, graphite: 2
• inscription: mount, verso, lower right, graphite: 2 [underlined]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Fogg Art Museum, 1960, inv. no. 1960.164

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gifts for Special Uses Fund (Henry P. McIlhenny)

Accession Year

1960

Object Number

1960.164

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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. 37
• Jennifer Tonkovich, Claude Gillot: Satire in the Age of Reason, exh. cat., The Morgan Library & Museum (New York, 2023), pp. 101-103

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