Old Master and British Works on Paper

Jean-Baptiste Pillement

Landscape with two shepherds conversing

Lot Closed

February 2, 06:59 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Jean-Baptiste Pillement

1727 - 1808

Landscape with two shepherds conversing

Black, white and touches of colored chalks on prepared canvas

377 by 502 mm; 15 by 19¾ in.

With Walker's Galleries Ltd., London;
Princess Henrietta Pignatelli, Newport, R.I, and Washington, D.C.

This landscape appears to belong to a small group of pastoral subjects by Pillement executed in shades of blue pastel applied directly onto prepared canvases. Two fractionally smaller examples, depicting a Landscape with figures by the ruins of a Roman aqueduct and a River Landscape with figures fishing, were previously on the London art market.¹

1. See N. Jeffares, 'Jean-Baptiste Pillement', Dictionary of pastellists before 1800 (online edition), no. J.592.559 and J.592.56