Painter, born in Langres, NE France. He studied under his father, Jean Gillot, and in Paris under Jean-Baptiste Corneille. In 1710 he became an associate of the Académie and director of costumes and decoration at the Opéra from 1715. He was the first artist to bring theatrical scenes into French painting, as in The Tomb of Maître André (c.1707). He greatly influenced Watteau and Lancret.
Claude Gillot (1673-1722) was a French painter, best known as the master of Watteau and Lancret.
He was born at Langres.
His sportive mythological landscape pieces, with such titles as Feast of Pan and Feast of Bacchus, opened the Academy of Painting at Paris to him in 1715; and he then adapted his art to the fashionable tastes of the day, and introduced the decorative fêtes champtres, in which he was afterwards surpassed by his pupils.
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