All the oil paintings of GILLOT, Claude

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ID	Image	Painting(From A to Z)	Details
6876		Dream of Solomon dh	c. 1693 Oil on canvas, 245 x 361 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid
34287		Morning in the Harbour	mk91 1640s Oil on canvas 74x97
6871		Scene from the 'Master Andrew's Tomb' ddf	c. 1707 Oil on canvas, 100 x 139 cm Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
20664		The Two Carriages (mk05)	Canvas 50 x 63''(127 x 160 cm)A scene from the Commedia dell'arte play by Regnard and Dufresny Acquired in 1923 R.F.
6870		The Two Coaches shr	c. 1710 Oil on canvas, 127 x 160 cm Mus??e du Louvre, Paris

GILLOT, Claude
French Painter, 1673-1722 French draughtsman, printmaker and painter. He was the son of an embroiderer and painter of ornaments, who doubtless trained him before he entered the Paris studio of Jean-Baptiste Corneille about 1690; there he learnt to paint and etch. In 1710 he was approved by the Academie Royale; he was received as a history painter five years later, on presentation of the Nailing of Christ to the Cross . Although he painted other elevated subjects, including a Death of the Virgin (1715; untraced) for his native Langres, he was most active as a draughtsman and printmaker specializing in theatre and genre scenes, as well as bacchanals and designs for decorations. Gillot's principal source of inspiration was the popular theatre; he is said to have run a puppet theatre, to have written plays and once to have been in charge of sets, machinery and costume for the opera. This interest was to have a profound effect on the art of his principal pupil, Antoine Watteau