About this artwork
Claude Gillot mocked the sanctity of marriage with this pastoral scene, part of a curious series on the life of satyrs. The text beneath describes the rite as a “Sad feast! in which love finds its entombment.” Apart from the oversized reading glasses on the presiding priest, the participants are surprisingly well behaved and straitlaced, considering the mythological creatures’ legendary appetite for lust. Indeed, the print connoisseur and dealer Pierre-Jean Mariette found the iconography of this group of Gillot’s prints particularly innovative.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Claude Gillot
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Title
- Le Mariage (The Mariage from, the Vie des Satyres)
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Place
- France (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Artist's working dates 1693–1722
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Medium
- Etching with engraving on cream laid paper
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Inscriptions
- Lettered, lower left: "C.Gillot fecit."; lower right: "avec priveilege du roi."; below image: "Le mariage/ Triste fete! ou l'amour...a sa chaine attache/ A Paris chez J Audran graveur du Roy a l'hotel royale des Gobelins."
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Dimensions
- Sheet, trimmed within platemark: 25.4 × 33.9 cm (10 × 13 3/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
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Reference Number
- 2013.544
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/129451/manifest.json
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