thumb|200px|[[Jean Aubert (architect)|Jean Aubert's engraving of Gillot's self-portrait, 1720]]

Claude Gillot (April 27, 1673 – May 4, 1722) was a French painter, printmaker, and illustrator, best known as the master of Watteau and Lancret.

Life

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 fêtes champêtres, in which he was afterwards surpassed by his pupils, though Gillot's examples usually lack the contemporary dress of Watteau's. His paintings often include characters from the commedia dell'arte, a taste he passed on to Watteau. Gillot was also closely connected with the opera and theatre as a designer of scenery and costumes. He died in Paris, aged 49.

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File:Claude Gillot - Les deux carrosses (vers 1707).JPG|Les Deux Carrosses, 1707, oil on canvas, Louvre, Paris

File:Le Tombeau de Maître André - Claude Gillot - Musée du Louvre Peintures RF 1945 26.jpg|Le tombeau de Maître André, ca. 1716–1717, oil on canvas, Louvre, Paris

File:Claude Gillot - Italian Comedians - WGA08989.jpg|Scene from "Jupiter curieux impertinent", pen drawing, Louvre, Paris

File:Gillot-Mascarade.jpg|Mascarade, pen and brown ink drawing, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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References

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Further reading

;General studies

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;Reference books

  • Brief biography of Claude Gillot from the Getty Museum

<!-- Claude Gillot né le à Langres et mort le à Paris, est un peintre français. Il fut peintre, graveur, illustrateur, décorateur de théâtre. Agréé à l'Académie en 1710 pour son tableau Don Quichotte, il y fut reçu en 1715 avec un tableau d'un style complètement différent, Jésus devant sa croix.

Créateur de tapisseries et de panneaux décoratifs en bois qu'il ornait d'arabesques, motifs végétaux et autres figures mythologiques, il fit aussi des toiles aux thèmes anecdotiques (Les deux carrosses), ainsi qu'une série de dessins (Arlequin empereur dans la lune, Embarquement pour Cythère, inspiré de la pièce de théâtre Les trois cousines de Dancourt). Il eut Watteau pour élève entre 1703 et 1708. -->