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Historical Artist - Claude Gillot (1673 - 1722)
Claude Gillot was originally taught by his father who was a painter and an embroiderer. He then
learned to paint and etch in Jean-Baptiste Corneille’s studio in Paris. He entered the
Academie Royale in 1715 and worked as a decorator, book illustrator, tapestry cartoonis, and
opera set and costume designer. His 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
fêtes champêtres, in which he was afterwards surpassed by his pupils. He was also
closely connected with the opera and theatre as a designer of scenery and costumes.
Contemporary French Artists
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