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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2004.49
People
Claude Gillot, French (Langres 1673 - 1722 Paris)
Title
Three Actors
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
17th-18th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/55252

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor over graphite on cream antique laid paper, extended on three sides on the upper left and right, framing lines in red chalk and brown ink
Dimensions
15.4 x 20.6 cm (6 1/16 x 8 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper left, black ink: III
  • inscription: upper right, graphite: 3

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Private collection, France, sold; to Galerie de Bayser, Paris, 2003, sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2004, inv. no. 2004.49

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Marian H. Phinney Fund and through the generosity of an anonymous donor
Accession Year
2004
Object Number
2004.49
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, p. 248 n. 3
  • Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums Annual Report 2003-2004 (Cambridge, MA, 2005), p. 28, repr.
  • Jennifer Tonkovich, "A New Album of Theater Drawings by Claude Gillot", Master Drawings (Winter 2006), XLIV, no. 4, pp. 464-486, cat. no. 7, pp. 465, 471, fig. 17, repr.
  • Jennifer Tonkovich, Claude Gillot: Satire in the Age of Reason, exh. cat., The Morgan Library & Museum (New York, 2023), p. 104, fig. 3.42

Verification Level

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