Monkeys Making Music | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1898.25
People: Manner of Claude Gillot, French (Langres 1673 - 1722 Paris)
Title: Monkeys Making Music
Other Titles: Alternate Title: Monkey Fantasy
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 18th century
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/298354

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black chalk and touches of brown ink on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in black chalk

Dimensions

30.8 x 21 cm (12 1/8 x 8 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

watermark: A crown, from which is suspended a fleur-de-lis (Mongan-Sachs W. 75)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Robert Gilmor, Jr., Baltimore, MD; to his estate, 1848; to probably Gardner L. Chandler, Salem, MA; to John Witt Randall, Boston, MA, bequest; to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892, gift; to Harvard University, 1892.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Accession Year: 1898
Object Number: 1898.25
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 620

Verification Level

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