Claude Gillot: Satire in the Age of Reason Medieval Money The River Windrush

The River Windrush

fierce ruler of the moonlit night

and painted dioramas

When not occupied with his lucrative portrait business

In 1902 Pierpont Morgan hired the architectural firm of McKim

Claude Gillot: Satire in the Age of Reason Medieval Money The River WindrushThe first volume on the French designer, painter, and illustrator to be published in English, Claude Gillot: Satire in the Age of Reason explores Gillots inventive draftsmanship and places his work in the context of the artistic and intellectual activity in Paris around 1700. The history of eighteenth century French art under the ancien rgime is dominated by great names. But the artistic scene in Paris at the dawn of the century was diverse and