Claude Gillot (1673–1722)

• Was a French painter, print-maker and illustrator. 
• Gillot was born in Langres.
• He was a painter, engraver, book illustrator, metal worker, and designer for the theater.
• He had Watteau as an apprentice between 1703 and 1708.

• Gillot's 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.

• He was closely connected with the opera and theatre as a designer of scenery and costumes.

• He died in Paris, aged 49.

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