Arlequin pleurant [print] / Gillot inv. ; Joullain sculp.

Accession number:

PML 198162, fol. 85

Author:

Joullain, François, 1697-1778, engraver, publisher.

Published:

[A Paris] : [chez Duchange ; Chez Gautrot, et Joullain], [1734?]

Description:

1 print : etching ; image: 280 x 178 mm; sheet: 296 x 188 mm

Credit:

Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018.

Notes:

Caption title.
Numbered "5e" within the plate at lower right.
One of a series of six prints after drawings made by Claude Gillot between ca. 1700-1705; the plates etched, according to Populus, by Comte de Caylus and engraved by Joullain, and depicting figures from the commedia dell'arte; published in 1734 or possibly earlier, and known under the title "Les comédiens Italiens." Cf. Populus.
Forms part of a collection of 586 etchings by and after Claude Gillot, mounted into a bound album by a former owner, with letterpress title page reading "Oeuvres de Gillot." (see PML 198162).
Library's copy trimmed to platemark.

Provenance:

Acquired in Paris by Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton (1720-1794), Duke of Newcastle, Clumber Library, ca. 1750 (his arms on the front cover); by descent until his library was dispersed at Christie's, London, in four parts between 21 June 1937 and 14 February 1938; Fernand Pouillon (1912-1986), Jardin de Flore, Paris, Cent livres illustrés du XV au XX siècle (1977), item 40; Librarie Fernand de Nobele, Paris, Livres sur les beaux-arts, les arts decoratifs et les objets de collection, bibliographie, imprimerie (1981), lot no. 39204; André Jammes (b. 1927), Paris; sale, Paris, Hotel Drouot, 28 November 2018, lot 3.

Summary:

Print shows the figure of Harlequin, standing full-length, in a landscape, facing forward, with a slapstick in his belt, wiping his eye with his thumb.

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