In the nationalmuseum, stockholm; 83 cm x 56 cm. Description in the book painters and public life in eighteenth-century paris (crow, thomas e.;yale university press, 1985): "a large, unfinished drawing by claude gillot now in stockholm illustrates precisely the newly mixed theatrical genre that resulted (plate 14): while an acrobat leaps several feet above the tightrope, various actors from the italian comedy gather below; harlequin climbs the standard that supports the rope, one pretends to be able to catch a falling performer in his hat. ". Unknown date
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