A Festival to Diana Interrupted by Satyrs
Claude Gillot, French, 1673 - 1722
about 1715
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Basan edition
Plate: 8 3/4 × 14 15/16 in. (22.2 × 37.9 cm)
Sheet: 10 5/8 × 17 5/8 in. (27 × 44.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Robert Dance, Class of 1977
PR.996.13
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, lower left margin: Invente et grave par C. Gillot; lower center; Feste de DIANE, troublee par des Satyres. / A Paris chez Basan. Maintes Nimphes enchanteresses / Lasses de courir les forests / Celebroient dans un Antre frais / La Deesse des chasseresses. / Le Saytre y vient a grand pas, / La Nymphe a son aspect redouble sa priere, / Mais malheureusement la Deesse est de piere / Et le Sayre ne l'est pas./ Avec une frayeur extreme / Chacune fuit ce laid museau; / Elles n'eussent pas fuit de meme / Si c'eut ete quelque gent Damoiseau. / Dubruit. Watermark: AUVERGNE 1749 [?]
Provenance
James Berquist, Boston; to Robert Dance; given to present collection, 1996.
Catalogue Raisonne
B. Popolus, Claude Gillot (1673-1722); Catalgue de l'oeuvre grave, Paris, 1930, pp. 75-76, no. 1, fig. 28.
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