German 1737-1807 Jakob Philipp Hackert Gallery   Related Paintings of Jakob Philipp Hackert :. | The Excavations of Pompeii | Der Herbst: Weinlese und Blick auf Sorrent den Golf und die Inseln | Autumn | Parklandschaft mit Venusbassin im Berliner Tiergarten | Landscape with River |
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William Henry Shelton
A nineteenth century painter, etcher and illustrator. American , 1840-1932
GILLOT, Claude
French Painter, 1673-1722 French draughtsman, printmaker and painter. He was the son of an embroiderer and painter of ornaments, who doubtless trained him before he entered the Paris studio of Jean-Baptiste Corneille about 1690; there he learnt to paint and etch. In 1710 he was approved by the Academie Royale; he was received as a history painter five years later, on presentation of the Nailing of Christ to the Cross . Although he painted other elevated subjects, including a Death of the Virgin (1715; untraced) for his native Langres, he was most active as a draughtsman and printmaker specializing in theatre and genre scenes, as well as bacchanals and designs for decorations. Gillot's principal source of inspiration was the popular theatre; he is said to have run a puppet theatre, to have written plays and once to have been in charge of sets, machinery and costume for the opera. This interest was to have a profound effect on the art of his principal pupil, Antoine Watteau
Asta Norregaard
impression artist 1853-1933