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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2021.68
People
Claude Gillot, French (Langres 1673 - 1722 Paris)
Title
The Italian Doctor Facing Left
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/370980

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red chalk on cream paper
Dimensions
20.4 × 14 cm (8 1/16 × 5 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: None

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Mrs. Augustus Mills, New York, by 1974, sold [through Christie’s, London, December 9, 1982, lot 221]. Private collector, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2021

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous gift in honor of Margaret Morgan Grasselli
Accession Year
2021
Object Number
2021.68
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Martin Eidelberg, "Watteau and Gillot: An Additional Point of Contact", The Burlington Magazine (September 1974), vol. 116, no. 858, pp. 536, 538-539, pp. 538-539 and note 6, fig. 40.
  • Margaret Morgan Grasselli, Pierre Rosenberg, and Nicole Parmantier, Watteau, 1684-1721, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art and Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Washington and Paris, 1984), pp. 62-63, under no. 3
  • Margaret Morgan Grasselli, "The Drawings of Antoine Watteau: Stylistic Development and Problems of Chronology" (1987), Harvard University, vol. 1, p. 33
  • Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, Antoine Watteau, 1684-1721: catalogue raisonné des dessins, Leonardo Arte (Milan, 1996), vol. 1, p. 4, repr. as fig. 1b
  • Jennifer Tonkovich, Claude Gillot: Satire in the Age of Reason, exh. cat., The Morgan Library & Museum (New York, 2023), p. 135, fig. 4.18

Verification Level

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