Habit de furie (no. 69) [print] / Gillot invenit ; Joullain sculpsit.

Accession number: 
PML 198162, fol. 45, no. 7
Author: 
Joullain, François, 1697-1778, etcher.
Published: 
[Paris] : [Chez Duchange], [between 1725-1734]
Description: 
1 print : hand colored etching ; image: 134 x 76 mm; sheet: 150 x 84 mm
Credit: 
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018.
Notes: 

Caption title.
One of a published suite of 84 etchings by Joullain after drawings by Gillot of costume designs for the Jean Balon opera-ballet Les éléments, with music by André Cardinal Destouches and Michel Richard Delalande, which was first presented at the Palais of the Tuileries in 1721. The plates were issued in seven sets of twelve plates each, along with an engraved title, "Nouveaux desseins d'habillements à l'usage des balets, opéras, et comédies".
"Les Nouveaux Desseins ... ont été executés à l'aquarelle de Gillot quelques mois avant sa mort, en vue du ballet des Éléments ... C'est à l'occasion de la reprise de 1725 que Joullain a gravé la suite des costumes dessinés par Gillot." Cf. Populus.
Plate signed "69." at lower right.
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: 

Costume design for a female Fury, with a snake twined around her waist, and whiskers, horns, goat ears, and a tangle of snakes on her head.

Classification: 
Print
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Department: 
Printed Books