Claude Gillot

Jean Aubert's engraving of Gillot's self-portrait, c. 1720

Claude Gillot (April 27, 1673 – May 4, 1722) was a French painter, printmaker, and illustrator, best known as the master of Watteau and Lancret.

Life

Gillot was born in Langres. He was a painter, engraver, book illustrator, metal worker, and designer for the theater. He had Watteau as an apprentice between 1703 and 1708.

Gillot's sportive mythological landscape pieces, with such titles as Feast of Pan and Feast of Bacchus, opened the Academy of Painting at Paris to him in 1715; and he then adapted his art to the fashionable tastes of the day, and introduced the decorative fêtes champêtres, in which he was afterwards surpassed by his pupils, though Gillot's examples usually lack the contemporary dress of Watteau's. His paintings often include characters from the commedia dell'arte, a taste he passed on to Watteau. Gillot was also closely connected with the opera and theatre as a designer of scenery and costumes. He died in Paris, aged 49.

Gallery

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  Les Deux Carrosses, 1707, oil on canvas, Louvre, Paris
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  Le tombeau de Maître André, ca. 1716–1717, oil on canvas, Louvre, Paris
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  Scene from "Jupiter curieux impertinent", pen drawing, Louvre, Paris
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  Mascarade, pen and brown ink drawing, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

References

References

Further reading

General studies

• "135° Claude Gillot, peintre et graveur: 1673–1722". Bulletin de la Société historique et archéologique de Langres (in French). 10 (133). Langres: Musée Saint-Didier: 257–258. August 25, 1933 – via Gallica.
• Dacier, Èmile (1928–1930). "Gillot". In Dimier, Louis (ed.). Les peintres français du XVIII-e siècle (in French). Paris, Bruxelles: G. Van Oest. vol. 1, pp. 157–215. OCLC 564527521.
• Choné, Paulette; et al. (1999). Claude Gillot (1673-1722): comédies, sabbats et autres sujets bizarres (exhibition catalogue) (in French). Paris; Langres: Somogy Éditions d’Art; Musée de Langres. ISBN 978-2-85056-357-7.
• Populus, Bernard (1930). Claude Gillot (1673–1722): Catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé (in French). Paris: Société pour l'étude de la gravure française.
• Valabrègue, Antony (1883). Un maître fantaisiste du XVIIIe siècle, Claude Gillot, 1673-1722: la vie et l'oeuvre, les rapports avec Watteau, la comédie italienne, etc (in French). Paris: Librairie de l'artiste. OCLC 23073146.

Specialty studies

• Dieckmann, Herbert (1963). "Claude Gillot, interprète de la Commedia dell'Arte". Cahiers de l'Association internationale des études françaises (in French). 15 (15): 201–224. doi:10.3406/caief.1963.2255 – via Persee.fr.
• Eidelberg, Martin (April 1973). "Watteau and Gillot: A Point of Contact". The Burlington Magazine. 115 (841): 232–239. JSTOR 877333.
• Eidelberg, Martin (September 1974). "Watteau and Gillot: An Additional Point of Contact". The Burlington Magazine. 116 (858): 536, 538–539. JSTOR 877793.
• Eidelberg, Martin (1987). "Watteau in the Atelier of Gillot". In Moureau, François; Grasselli, Margaret (eds.). Antoine Watteau, 1684-1721 : le peintre, son temps et sa légende. Paris, Genève: Champion — Slatkin. pp. 45–57. ISBN 2852030381. OCLC 468860156.
• Mathey, Jacques (August 1960). "Drawings by Watteau and Gillot". The Burlington Magazine. 102 (689): 354–359, 361. JSTOR 873042.
• Mosbey, Dewey F. (Spring 1974). "Claude Gillot's "Embarkation for the Isle of Cythera" and Its Relationship to Watteau". Master Drawings. 12 (1): 49–56, 102–103. JSTOR 1553223.
• Munhall, Edgar (April 1962). "Claude Gillot's 'Feast of Pan'". Yale Art Gallery Bulletin. 27 (1–2): 22–35. JSTOR 40514051.
• Tonkovich, Jennifer (April 2005). "Claude Gillot's Costume Designs for the Paris Opéra: Some New Sources". The Burlington Magazine. 147 (1225): 248–252. JSTOR 20073927.
• Tonkovich, Jennifer (Winter 2006). "A New Album of Theater Drawings by Claude Gillot". Master Drawings. 44 (4): 464–486. JSTOR 20444475.
• Tonkovich, Jennifer (Summer 2009). "New Light on Drawings by Claude Gillot and His Circle in Stockholm". Master Drawings. 47 (2): 159–173. JSTOR 25609737.

Additional studies

• Crow, Thomas E. (1985). Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris. New Haven; London: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-03764-3. OCLC 1200566051 – via the Internet Archive.
• Grasselli, Margaret Morgan; Rosenberg, Pierre & Paramantier, Nicole (1984). Watteau, 1684-1721 (PDF) (exhibition catalogue). Washington: National Gallery of Art. ISBN 0-89468-074-9. OCLC 557740787 – via the National Gallery of Art archive.
• Kalnein, Wend Graf [in German]; Levey, Michael (1972). Art and Architecture of the Eighteenth Century in France. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. OCLC 1008263215. SBN 14-056037-8.
• Plax, Julie Anne (2000). Watteau and the Cultural Politics of Eighteenth-Century France. Cambridge etc.: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-64268-X. OCLC 803847893.

Reference books

• Bénézit, Emmanuel (2006) [first published in French in 1911–1923]. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Vol. 6. Paris: Gründ. pp. 197–198. ISBN 2-7000-3076-1 – via the Internet Archive.
• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Gillot, Claude". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 23.
• Campbell, Gordon, ed. (2006). The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press. p. 424. ISBN 978-0-19-518948-3.
• Constans, Claire (1979). "Gillot (Claude)". In Laclotte, Michel (ed.). Petit Larousse de la Peinture (in French). Vol. 1. Paris: Librairie Larousse. p. 717. ISBN 2-03-020148-0.
• Gallenkamp, George V. (1969). "Gillot, Claude". In Myers, Bernard S. (ed.). McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Art. Vol. 2. New York: McGraw-Hill. pp. 505–506. OCLC 1231684719 – via the Internet Archive.
• Jowers, Sidney (2000). Theatrical Costume, Masks, Make-Up and Wigs: A Bibliography and Iconography. London, New York: Routledge. p. 55. ISBN 0-415-24774-8.
• Kreplin, Bernd Curt [in German] (1921). "Gillot, Claude". In Thieme, Ulrich; Willis, Fred C. (eds.). Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler (in German). Vol. 14. Leipzig: E. A. Seemann. pp. 44–45. OCLC 1039517481 – via the Internet Archive.
• Reinbold, Anne (1985). "Gillot (Claude)". In Prévost, Michel; Roman d'Amat, Jean-Charles; Tribout de Morembert, Henri (eds.). Dictionnaire de biographie française (in French). Vol. 16. Paris: Letouzey et Ané. cols. 86–87.
• Roland Michel, Marianne (1996). "Gillot, Claude". In Turner, Jane (ed.). The Dictionary of Art. Vol. 12. New York: Grove's Dictionaries. pp. 637–638. ISBN 1-884446-00-0 – via the Internet Archive.
• Tonkovich, Jennifer (2007). "Gillot, Claude". In Kasten, Eberhard; et al. (eds.). Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon (in German). Vol. 54. München, Leipzig: Saur. pp. 216–217. ISBN 978-3-598-22794-3.

External links

• Brief biography of Claude Gillot from the Getty Museum
• Sharifzadeh, Lilas (2014), Claude Gillot, Scène de la Comédie-Italienne: un noveaeu point de contact avec Watteau (PDF) (in French), Paris: Galerie Hubert Duchemin, retrieved April 25, 2020