Master Paintings
Master Paintings
Property of a West Coast Collector
Jean-Baptiste Pillement
A landscape with shepherds beneath an imaginary stone arch; A landscape with travelers beneath an old wooden bridge
Auction Closed
May 25, 03:13 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Property of a West Coast Collector
Jean-Baptiste Pillement
Lyon 1727 - 1808
A landscape with shepherds beneath an imaginary stone arch;
A landscape with travelers beneath an old wooden bridge
both signed and dated lower left: Jean Pillement 1792
a pair, both oil on canvas
each canvas: 15 by 22 in.; 38.1 by 55.9 cm.
each framed: 22 by 29 in.; 55.9 by 73.7 cm.
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Jean-Baptiste Pillement enjoyed a peripatetic career: although he was born and died in Lyon, he worked in Paris, Madrid, Lisbon, London, Vienna, Warsaw, St. Petersburg, Milan, Rome, Venice, and Basel. The present pair of imaginary landscapes showcase motifs that Pillement used throughout his painted and drawn oeuvre: travelers, fantastical stone arches and imaginary ruins of bridges. In addition to painting landscapes, he made designs for prints, wallpaper, and porcelain, and the impossibly thin arch and bridge here resemble chinoiserie forms on his decorative works. Dated 1792, these scenes were painted while Pillement lived for several years in Pézenas in the Languedoc.