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Claude Gillot
1673-1722
Family of Satyrs in a landscape
ca. 1710
Red chalk on laid paper, adhered to laminated paper decorative mount; framing line in pen and brown ink.
10 1/8 x 14 15/16 inches (256 x 379 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
III, 88
Inscription:
Inscribed on recto, below framing line on old mount, "Gillot inv. del."; on lower right of old mount, in graphite, "1680 Claude Gillot/Watteau's master".
Provenance:
Sensier sale, Paris, 10-15 December 1877, no. 433 (as Gillot); Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.
Associated names:
Watteau, Antoine, 1684-1721, Formerly attributed to.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography:
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, III, 88.
Rosenberg, Pierre and Louis-Antoine Prat, "Antoine Watteau, 1684-1721. Catalogue raisonné des dessins", 3 volumes, Milan, 1996, III, no. R394, repr.
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