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CLAUDE GILLOT (1673-1722)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 23 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CLAUDE See also:GILLOT (1673-1722)  , See also:French painter, best known as the See also:master of See also:Watteau and See also:Lancret, was See also:born at See also:Langres . His sportive mythological landscape pieces, with such titles as " Feast of See also:Pan " and "Feast of Bacchus," opened the See also:Academy of See also:Painting at See also:Paris to him in 1715; and he then adapted his See also:art to the fashionable tastes of the See also:day, and introduced the decorative fetes champeetres, in which he was afterwards surpassed by his pupils . He was also closely connected with the See also:opera and See also:theatre as a designer of scenery and costumes .

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