Claude Gillot
Les Deux Carrosses |
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Claude Gillot , 1707 |
Oil on cloth |
127 × 160 cm |
Louvre |
Claude Gillot (born April 28, 1673 in Langres , † May 4, 1722 in Paris ) was a French painter.
Claude Gillot was born in Langres in 1673 as the son of an interior designer. He completed his training in Paris with a history painter. After his death he worked as a freelance decorative painter. He painted screens , designed stage sets and costumes , decorated weapons and harpsichord lids. In between he made satirical copperplate engravings on the current financial scandal. He was accepted into the academy with a crucifixion scene. It figured as a “peintre des sujets modern”. Claude Gillot became one of the founders of the French Rococo through his work and painting lessons . He was the teacher of Antoine Watteau and Nicolas Lancret . Gillot preferred to create small-format paintings, engravings and etchings.
literature
- Wilhelm Hausenstein: Rokoko - French and German illustrators of the eighteenth century Piper & Co., Munich, 1918, p. 19.
- (Heinz-) Joachim Poley: CG- life and work. A contribution to the French art history of the 18th century (Konrad) Triltsch, Würzburg 1938 (first: Diss. Phil. Basel 1935) with catalog raisonné
- Herbert Dieckmann : CG- Interprête de la Commedia dell 'Arte Cahiers de l'Ass. internat. des études franc., 15, 1963, pp. 201-224; German CG as interpreter of the Commedia dell 'Arte in ders .: Diderot and the Enlightenment. Essays on European literature of the 18th century. JB Metzlersche, Stuttgart 1972 ISBN 3-476-00225-X , pp. 98–116 With 9 scenes
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SURNAME | Gillot, Claude |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 28, 1673 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Langres |
DATE OF DEATH | May 4, 1722 |
Place of death | Paris |