WRITTEN IN FRENCH Designer and engraver, Claude Gillot (Langres, 1673 - Paris, 1722) owes a large part of his reputation to the fantasy of his drawings and the freedom of his engravings, earning him the reputation of an undisciplined artist. His work as a vignettist, abundant and varied, appreciated by private circles and the Parisian bourgeoisie, testifies, at the end of the Grand Siècle, to the emergence of a first rococo, rich in invention, poetry and strangeness. At a distance from the official art of Versailles, his art is that of Italian comedy, fable and theater, then in full
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