Two Women Resting and Two Satyrs Dancing
Claude Gillot
c. 1700–15
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with traces of brush and brown wash, on buff laid paper, laid down on cream laid card, with blue laid paper border
Dimensions
15.6 × 20 cm (6 3/16 × 7 7/8 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
94576
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