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

Accession number:

PML 198162, fol. 83

Author:

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

Published:

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

Description:

1 print : etching ; image: 280 x 180 mm; sheet: 295 x 190 mm

Credit:

Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2018.

Notes:

Caption title.
Numbered "3e" 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 slightly to the right, with his slapstick at his waist, with one hand held up to his chest with finger closed, and the other extended to the right, as if addressing an unseen party.

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Printed Books