Claude Gillot
Pioneered decorative fête champêtre style
Claude Gillot was a French painter , print-maker and illustrator, best known as the master of Watteau and Lancret . 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 fête champêtres , in which he was afterwards surpassed by his pupils. He was also closely connected with the opera and theater as a designer of scenery and costumes. He died in Paris, aged 49.
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Master student
- Jean-Antoine Watteau Student
Artworks by this artist (21 total)
- The Stalled Procession
- Vier Kostümfiguren ca. 1695 [-] 1720
- The Actors Making Ready 1705-10
- Bacchanal
- Figures in Theatrical Costumes 2
- Harlequin Espirit Follet; The Comedian’s Repast c. 1700[-]1715
- Scene from the Italian Comedy 1700
- Soldier with Halberd
- Study for Festival of the God Pan (La Fete du Dieu Pan) 1707[-]8
- La scène des deux carrosses ca. 1712[-]16
- Scene at the fair ca. 1700 [-] 1720
- Fox preaching to birds
- Satyrs Preparing for a Festival
- Celebration in honor of the god Pan
- Figures in Theatrical Costumes
- Four Figures in Theatrical Costume 1710
- Studies of the Holy Family and Saint John the Baptist 1705-10
- Joueurs de cartes dans un parc au pied d’une statue de Diane
- Two Women Resting and Two Satyrs Dancing c. 1700[-]15
- Feast of the god Pan