Charles Gillot

Charles Gillot (1853-1904), printer, opens in 1876, in Paris, the first workshop of Photogravure.

Large collector of medieval Art but especially of the Far East and more particularly arts of the Japan.

The collection Charles Gillot

Composition of its collection:
  • sculptures;
  • Lacquer S;
  • ustensils of smokers;
  • Inrô ;
  • combs and ornaments of hairstyle;
  • ceramic (potteries of Sanouki, Minato, Rakou);
  • antiquated bronzes of Japan and China;
  • weapons and armours, (saber, ornament of saber, Tsuba);
  • Netsuke ;
  • fabric S (silk, drapery, fabrics);
  • illustrated books;
  • Prints;
  • Chinese painting;
  • Japanese painting (school of Tosa, Kano)

Collection dispersed with the hotel Drouot in April 1904.

Contemporaries

  • Louis Gonse;
  • Charles Haviland;
  • Frederic Villot;
  • Henri Cernuschi;
  • Theodore Duret;
  • the brothers Goncourt,

Quotations

Edmond de Goncourt: “the Japanese collection most perfect, most refined for bronzes, irons, wood ornamented, the lacquers, the potteries, all the industrial objects, it is the collection of Gillot”.

See too

External bonds

  • http://www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr/fr/01museeartsdeco/03visite/02collections/oeuvre_xix15.html

References

  • the Collection Charles Gillot, objets d'art and paintings of the Far East , Paris 1904.

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