Jean-Baptiste Pillement (Lyon 1728-1808)

A wooded landscape with herdsmen by a stream

Details

Jean-Baptiste Pillement (Lyon 1728-1808)
A wooded landscape with herdsmen by a stream
signed and dated 'Jean Pillement / 1792' (lower left)
oil on canvas, unlined
17 ¾ x 26 1/8 in. (44.5 x 66.5 cm.)

Exhibited

Lisbon, Ricardo do Espírito Santo Silva Foundation, Jean Pillement 1728-1808, e o paisagismo em Portugal no século XVIII, 1996, no. 6.

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Lot Essay

Jean-Baptiste Pillement’s debt to the 17th-century Dutch Italianates is evident here in both the figure of the departing herdsman and in the sunlit palette. The work is a fine example of the artist’s accomplished rendering of light and atmosphere and can be compared to Herdsmen and Cattle at a Stream in the Liechtenstein Collection, Vienna.

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