Anontiation et incarnation de Jesus Christ [print] / GH ; Gillot in.

Accession number:

PML 198162, fol. 2, no. 2

Author:

Huquier, Gabriel, 1695-1772, etcher, publisher.

Published:

[Paris] : [Chez Huquier], [between 1720 and 1732]

Description:

1 print : etching and engraving ; image: 186 x 120 mm; sheet: 204 x 133 mm

Credit:

Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018.

Notes:

Caption title.
One of a series of 60 etchings depicting the life of Christ, executed by Gabriel Huquier after drawings by Claude Gillot, and issued with title plate: La vie de N.S. Jesus C (Paris : Chez Huquier, between 1720 and 1732).
"The original drawings [for the Vie de Notre Seigneur Jesus Christ] were executed in 1720 and the series was engraved between that date and 1732 (when the set is mentioned by Mariette in his Notes Manuscrites)."--British Museum online catalog.
Forms part of a collection of 586 etchings and engravings 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 within plate mark.

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:

Scene of the Annunciation, with the Virgin kneeling at left and the angel at right.

Classification:

Catalog Link:

See more information »

Department:

Printed Books