Four Actors in Heroic Costume, with a Study of a Helmeted Head
Claude Gillot
ca. 1711–22
Medium
Watercolor, pen and black ink, red chalk, and traces of black chalk
Dimensions
5 9/16 × 7 7/8 in. (14.2 × 20 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Stephen A. Geiger Gift, 2020
Accession Number
2020.327
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Claude Gillot · 1673–1722
Artist known for his elegant designs done in the Rococo manner of Audran; also for his predilection for scenes from the 'comedia dell'arte.' Few paintings survive; his work is known mainly through drawings and etchings. Comment on works: Genre; History