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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1960.162
People
Claude Gillot, French (Langres 1673 - 1722 Paris)
Title
Standing Woman in Turkish Costume
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Actress in Turkish Costume
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296714

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and red chalk wash on toned cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown and black ink
Dimensions
200 × 13.5 cm (78 3/4 × 5 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: None visible: drawing is laid down
  • inscription: mount, verso, center, brown ink: 63
  • inscription: mount, verso, center, graphite: 2
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower center, graphite: 4
  • inscription: mount, verso, lower right, graphite: 3

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Fogg Art Museum, 1960, inv. no. 1960.162

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gifts for Special Uses Fund (Henry P. McIlhenny)
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
1960.162
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. 36
  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr. and Edouard Kopp, French Drawings from the Age of Claude, Poussin, Watteau, and Fragonard: Highlights from the Collection of the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022), p. 150, fig. 1
  • Hélène Meyer, Xavier Salmon, and Jennifer Tonkovich, Claude Gillot (1673-1722): Comédies, fables & arabésques, exh. cat., Musée du Louvre Éditions and Lienart éditions (Paris, 2023)
  • Jennifer Tonkovich, Claude Gillot: Satire in the Age of Reason, exh. cat., The Morgan Library & Museum (New York, 2023), pp. 101-103

Exhibition History

  • Re-View: S426A (Large Niche) HAA171x Exoticism and Orientalism, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 02/05/2009 - 05/03/2009

Verification Level

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