Claude Gillot

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Les Deux Carrosses by Claude Gillot, 1707

Claude Gillot (April 28, 1673 – May 4, 1722) was a French painter, best known as the master of Watteau and Lancret.

Life

Gillot was born in Langres. He was a painter, engraver, book illustrator, metal worker, and designer for the theater. He had Watteau as an apprentice between 1703 and 1708.

Gillot's sportive mythological landscape pieces, with such titles as Feast of Pan and Feast of Bacchus, opened the Academy of Painting at Paris to him in 1715; and he then adapted his art to the fashionable tastes of the day, and introduced the decorative fêtes champêtres, in which he was afterwards surpassed by his pupils. He was also closely connected with the opera and theatre as a designer of scenery and costumes.^[1] He died in Paris, aged 49.

References

↑ Chisholm 1911.

Attribution

Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Gillot, Claude". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press

External links

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Brief biography of Claude Gillot from the Getty Museum

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 27335846 LCCN: nr93039721 ISNI: 0000 0001 2277 7433 GND: 104310499 BNF: cb135384750 ULAN: 500115197

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Name	Gillot, Claude
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Short description	French painter
Date of birth	April 28, 1673
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Date of death	May 4, 1722
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