A Performance by the Commedia dell'Arte, c. 1710

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with gray wash on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 15.9 x 21.4 cm (6 1/4 x 8 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner

Accession Number

2006.11.13.a

Artists / Makers

Claude Gillot (artist) French, 1673 - 1722

Image Use

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Provenance

(Strölin et Bayser, Paris); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, 16 October 1972; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990.

Associated Names

Anonymous
Woodner and Ms. Andrea Woodner, Dian, Ms.
Woodner, Andrea
Woodner, Ian

Exhibition History

1973: Woodner Collection II: Old Master Drawings from the XV to the XVIII Century, William H. Schab Gallery, New York and tour to Los Angeles County Museum and Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1973-74, no. 95.

1983: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu and tour to Kimbel Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX; The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; The Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, 1983-1985, no. 56.

1986: Dibujos de los siglos XIV al XX: Colección Woodner, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1986-87, no. 93.

1986: Meisterzeichnungen aus Sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner, Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, and Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1986, no. 78.

1987: Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 76.

1990: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 96.

1995: The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 77 (entry by Margaret Morgan Grasselli).

2006: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007 (no cat.).

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 94-95, 280, 2009, no. 38 (color; recto and verso).

2017: The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.

2023: Claude Gillot: Satire in the Age of Reason, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2023.

Bibliography

1974: Butler, Joseph T. "Old Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection II." Connoisseur 186 (1974): 56-57 (repro.).

2000: McCullagh, Suzanne Folds, et al. Maineri to Miró: The Regenstein Collection since 1975. Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago. Catalogue published in Museum Studies 26, no. 1 (2000): 34, under no. 10.

2002: Tonkovich, Jennifer. "Claude Gillot and the Theater, with a Catalogue of Drawings." 3 vols. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, 2002, 1: 108, 166; 2: 267-271, 273, 274, cat. 26; 3: figs. 44-45.