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CLAUDE GILLOT (1673-1722)

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CLAUDE
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GILLOT (1673-1722)  ,
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French painter, best known as the
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master of
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Watteau and
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Lancret, was
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born at
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Langres . His sportive mythological landscape pieces, with such titles as " Feast of
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Pan " and "Feast of Bacchus," opened the
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Academy of
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Painting at
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Paris to him in 1715; and he then adapted his
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art to the fashionable tastes of the
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day, and introduced the decorative fetes champeetres, in which he was afterwards surpassed by his pupils . He was also closely connected with the
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opera and
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theatre as a designer of scenery and costumes .

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