Saturday, 3 October 2026

Claude Gillot’s “The Two Carriages” of 1707 and a quarrel between servants before their carriages

In the painting, two servants butt heads on a city street between two carriages, with their masters leaning out and a man in black standing between.

Problems of the aristocracy: how to settle relations between the servants? Claude Gillot, The Two Carriages, 1707. And do not be alarmed: the woman with the reptilian face is in fact merely wearing a velvet mask known as a “moretta”.

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