Harlequin Espirit Follet: The Comedian's Repast

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Prints and Drawings

c. 1700–1715

Claude Gillot
French, 1673-1722

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Claude Gillot
Title: Harlequin Espirit Follet: The Comedian's Repast
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1690–1715
Medium: Pen and black and red ink, and brush and red wash, on tan laid paper, laid down on tan card
Dimensions: 15.7 × 21.2 cm (6 3/16 × 8 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Dr. and Mrs. William D. Shorey
Reference Number: 1986.408
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Émile Dacier, “Les Scènes et figures théâtrales de Claude Gillot,” La Revue de l’Art (May 1926), p. 288.
Populus, Claude Gillot, L’Oeuvre Gravé (Paris, 1930), p. 91F.
François Boucher and Philippe Jaccottet, Le dessin français au XVIIIe siècle (Lausanne, 1952), p. 175, pl. 7.
Jean-François Méjanès, Dessins Français du XVIIIe Siècle de Watteau à Lemoyne (Paris, 1987), p. 56.

London, Rowland, Browse and Delbanco, “The Age of Grace,” June-July 1945, cat. 24.
London, Matthiesen Gallery, “French Masters of the 18th Century,” 1950, cat. 34, pl. VI.
Bristol, Bristol City Art Gallery, “French XVII Century Drawings,” 1956, cat. 32.
London, Royal Academy, “France in the 18th Century,” 1968, cat. 286.
New York, The Frick Collection, “From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago,” April 23-July 7, 1991, n.p., cat. 19; The Art Institute of Chicago, September 10, 1991-January 5, 1992.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present,” September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat.
New York, the Frick Collection, “Watteau and His World: French Drawing from 1700-1750,” October 19, 1999-January 9, 2000, pp. 204-205, cat. 57, cat. by Alan Wintermute, et. al.; the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, February 11-May 8, 2000.

François Renaud [Lugt suppl. 1042]. Henri Michel-Lévy; sold, Paris, May 12-13, 1919, lot 90; Léon Michel-Lévy; sold, Paris, June 17-18, 1925, lot 65. Comte Charles de Noailles. Dr. and Mrs. Francis Springell; sold, Sotheby’s, London, July 1986, lot 71, to Thomas Agnew and Sons, London, for the Art Institute.

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