Habit de Roy: a man wearing a tonnelet decorated with rosettes, a crown and a turban with feathers on his head, from 'New designs for costumes' (Nouveaux desseins d'habillements à l'usage des balets operas et comedies)
Claude Gillot|François Joullain
ca. 1721
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
image: 5 13/16 x 3 3/16 in. (14.8 x 8.1 cm)
Classification
Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.377.2
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
MenFeathers
About the Artist
Claude Gillot|François Joullain · 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