Claude Gillot

Claude Gillot ( born April 28, 1673 Langres; † May 4, 1722 in Paris) was a French painter.

Claude Gillot was born in 1673 in Langres, the son of an interior decorator. His training in Paris, he graduated with a history painter. After his death, he worked as a freelance decorative painter. He painted folding screens, designed stage sets and costumes, ornate weapons and harpsichord lid. In between, he made satirical engravings on the current financial scandal. Admission to the Academy succeeded with a crucifixion scene. He figured as " Peintre the sujets modern ". Claude Gillot was through his work and his painting lessons one of the founders of the French Rococo. He was a teacher of Antoine Watteau and Nicolas Lancret. Gillot preferably created small -scale paintings, engravings and etchings.