DrawingsFrench18th century

Monkeys Making Music

18th century

Artists

Claude GillotArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black chalk and touches of brown ink on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in black chalk

Culture

French

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

30.8 x 21 cm (12 1/8 x 8 1/4 in.)

Provenance

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.

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