Claude Gillot
Claude Gillot (April 27, 1673 – May 4, 1722) was a French painter, printmaker, and illustrator, best known as the master of Watteau and Lancret.
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Claude Gillot
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- Born
- 1673.
- Died
- 1722.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- painter, draftsperson, graphic artist, printmaker, theatre designer and etcher.
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Claude Gillot (April 27, 1673 – May 4, 1722) was a French painter, printmaker, and illustrator, best known as the master of Watteau and Lancret.
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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.
Seated Male Nude, 1693–95, by Claude Gillot
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1673
Claude Gillot was born in 1673.
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Claude Gillot died at Paris.
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- Dacier, Èmile. Les peintres français du XVIII-e siècle. G. Van Oest. vol. 1, pp. 157–215. 1928–1930. 564527521.
- Choné, Paulette. Claude Gillot (1673-1722): comédies, sabbats et autres sujets bizarres. Somogy Éditions d’Art; Musée de Langres. 1999. 978-2-85056-357-7.
- Populus, Bernard. Claude Gillot (1673–1722): Catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé. Société pour l'étude de la gravure française. 1930.
- Valabrègue, Antony. Un maître fantaisiste du XVIIIe siècle, Claude Gillot, 1673-1722: la vie et l'oeuvre, les rapports avec Watteau, la comédie italienne, etc. Librairie de l'artiste. 1883. 23073146.
- Dieckmann, Herbert. Claude Gillot, interprète de la Commedia dell'Arte. Cahiers de l'Association internationale des études françaises. 15. 201–224. 1963. 10.3406/caief.1963.2255.
- Eidelberg, Martin. Watteau and Gillot: A Point of Contact. The Burlington Magazine. 115. 841. 232–239. April 1973. 877333.
- Eidelberg, Martin. Watteau and Gillot: An Additional Point of Contact. The Burlington Magazine. 116. 858. 536, 538–539. September 1974. 877793.
- Eidelberg, Martin. Antoine Watteau, 1684-1721 : le peintre, son temps et sa légende. Champion — Slatkin. 45–57. 1987. 2852030381.
- Mathey, Jacques. Drawings by Watteau and Gillot. The Burlington Magazine. 102. 689. 354–359, 361. August 1960. 873042.
- Mosbey, Dewey F. Claude Gillot's "Embarkation for the Isle of Cythera" and Its Relationship to Watteau. Master Drawings. 12. 1. 49–56, 102–103. Spring 1974. 1553223.
- Munhall, Edgar. Claude Gillot's 'Feast of Pan'. Yale Art Gallery Bulletin. 27. 1–2. 22–35. April 1962. 40514051.
- Tonkovich, Jennifer. Claude Gillot's Costume Designs for the Paris Opéra: Some New Sources. The Burlington Magazine. 147. 1225. 248–252. April 2005. 20073927.
- Tonkovich, Jennifer. A New Album of Theater Drawings by Claude Gillot. Master Drawings. 44. 4. 464–486. Winter 2006. 20444475.
- Tonkovich, Jennifer. New Light on Drawings by Claude Gillot and His Circle in Stockholm. Master Drawings. 47. 2. 159–173. Summer 2009. 25609737.
- Crow, Thomas E. Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris. Yale University Press. 1985. 0-300-03764-3.
- Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. Watteau, 1684-1721. National Gallery of Art. 1984. 0-89468-074-9.
- Kalnein, Wend Graf. Art and Architecture of the Eighteenth Century in France. Penguin Books. 1972. 1008263215.
- Plax, Julie Anne. Watteau and the Cultural Politics of Eighteenth-Century France. Cambridge University Press. 2000. 0-521-64268-X.
- Bénézit, Emmanuel. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Gründ. 6. 197–198. 2006. 2-7000-3076-1.
- Oxford University Press. The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts. 1. 424. 2006. 978-0-19-518948-3.
- Constans, Claire. Gillot (Claude). Petit Larousse de la Peinture. Librairie Larousse. 1. 717. 1979. 2-03-020148-0.
- Gallenkamp, George V. Gillot, Claude. McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Art. McGraw-Hill. 2. 505–506. 1969. 1231684719.
- Jowers, Sidney. Theatrical Costume, Masks, Make-Up and Wigs: A Bibliography and Iconography. Routledge. 55. 2000. 0-415-24774-8.
- Kreplin, Bernd Curt. Gillot, Claude. Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler. E. A. Seemann. 14. 44–45. 1921. 1039517481.
- Reinbold, Anne. Gillot (Claude). Dictionnaire de biographie française. Letouzey et Ané. 16. cols. 86–87. 1985.
- Roland Michel, Marianne. Gillot, Claude. The Dictionary of Art. Grove's Dictionaries. 12. 637–638. 1996. 1-884446-00-0.
- Tonkovich, Jennifer. Gillot, Claude. Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Saur. 54. 216–217. 2007. 978-3-598-22794-3.
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