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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.25
People
Manner of Claude Gillot, French (Langres 1673 - 1722 Paris)
Title
Monkeys Making Music
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Monkey Fantasy
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298354

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk and touches of brown ink on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in black chalk
Dimensions
30.8 x 21 cm (12 1/8 x 8 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: A crown, from which is suspended a fleur-de-lis (Mongan-Sachs W. 75)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Robert Gilmor, Jr., Baltimore, MD; to his estate, 1848; to probably Gardner L. Chandler, Salem, MA; to John Witt Randall, Boston, MA, bequest; to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892, gift; to Harvard University, 1892.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Accession Year
1898
Object Number
1898.25
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 620

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