An historical guide to French interiors, furniture, decoration, woodwork, & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth . Designs for Decorative Panels. their heads, as a dancing master would, if he expected Orpheus^ should return to play a minuet tothem. Claude Gillot was born at Langres in 1673, and he was for some time master to Antoine Watteau. Hereceived him into his house, taught him all he knew, and by and by the scholar surpassed the master. Gillotwas a scholar of J. B. Corneille. He chiefly ex
An historical guide to French interiors, furniture, decoration, woodwork, & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth . Designs for Decorative Panels. their heads, as a dancing master would, if he expected Orpheus^ should return to play a minuet tothem. Claude Gillot was born at Langres in 1673, and he was for some time master to Antoine Watteau. Hereceived him into his house, taught him all he knew, and by and by the scholar surpassed the master. Gillotwas a scholar of J. B. Corneille. He chiefly excelled as a designer and etcher of satyrs, fauns, and engravings are executed in a bold, free style. He engraved the plates tor the Fables of LaMothe-Hendaro. His engravings amount to a considerable number. He died in Paris in 1722. 196Regency WATTEAU. First Quarter 18th
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