Cleveland Museum of Art
Shepherds in a Landscape
Jean Baptiste PillementLinkedCulture matchlcp-1479ad43e105
- Date
- 1779
- Medium
- pastel
- Culture
- France, 18th century
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 147088
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The exquisite handling of the pastel, crisp and colorful in the foreground while of the greatest subtlety in the atmospheric distance, bears out Pillement's reputation as the best 18th-century French artist of the pastel landscape. Landscapes in this period were most often picturesque creations, rather than literal transcriptions of nature. In this dramatically irregular countryside, shepherds, flocks, and rustic buildings create an air of idealized rural charm.
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- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Provenance
- Albert Blum, NY (1938); (Wildenstein & Co., NY)
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