2004.49: Three Actors

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

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, 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

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