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Jean-Baptiste Pillement

94 works

Jean-Baptiste Pillement (1728-1808) was a painter and etcher. Read more

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Painting of an imaginary oriental market street with vendors, dancing figures, palm trees, and a staircase to a harbor.

Market Scene in an Imaginary Oriental Port

about 1764

Fishermen mending and pulling nets on a rocky shore beside a calm bay, with sailboats and a large rock on the right.

Fishermen pulling nets at the seaside

1769

Landscape painting of a ruined domed temple with ivy, two figures seated on rocks, a waterfall and distant hills.

Temple of Minerva Medica in Rome

1765

Painting of ivy-covered Roman brick ruins with arches and towers, two figures walking a rocky path, and a distant village.

Landscape with the ruins of Aqua Julia in Rome

1765

Painting of a rocky river gorge with waterfall, a wooden bridge overhead, a stone tower, and washerwomen by the water.

Landscape with Washerwomen and Peasants

1791

Painting of a ruined stone arch framing a waterfall, with muleteers, donkeys and goats in the foreground and a tower beyond.

Landscape with Muleteers and Peasants

1791

Shepherds and sheep on a hill beside a stone arch bridge, with a round tower and distant snowy mountain in a pale landscape.

Bergige Landschaft mit einem überbrückten Wasserlauf und Hirten mit ihrer Herde ("Der Winter")

1782

Painting of a shepherd couple with cattle, goats and sheep on rocks above a stream, under a stormy sky.

Südliche Berglandschaft mit einem Hirtenpaar und seiner Herde ("Der Sommer")

1782

Black ink etching of a curling botanical vine with striped gourd-like fruits, berry clusters and feathery leaves on cream pap

Persian Flowers

1755

Watercolor and ink drawing of a stylized floral spray with pink blossoms, blue leaves, and red berries on pale paper.

Flower Embroidery Design for Silk Manufactory of Lyon

c. 1790

Two shepherds with sheep and goats on a rocky riverbank beneath a large tree, with hills and a village in the distance.

Shepherds in a Landscape

1779

Watercolor drawing of two tall trees with green and brown foliage rising from a brown ground on pale paper.

Trees

1700s(?)

Pen and ink drawing of a rural scene with cattle, a man on a donkey, women, and a farmhouse beside a pond.

Rural Scene

1762

Brown wash drawing of a river with a sailing boat, a round stone tower, ruined arches and a distant windmill.

Flat coastal landscape with an old tower and windmill

1769

Brown wash drawing of a round stone tower on a riverbank, figures in the foreground, and a ruined bridge across the water.

River landscape, in the foreground a round tower, in the middle ground on an island a square tower, with ruins of a b…

1769

Coastal bay with fishermen mending nets on rocks, sailboats on water, a tall cliff on the right, and a distant ruined tower.

Bay with large rocks on the right and fishermen

1769

Watercolor of a sea bay with tall rocks, sailboats, fishermen in rowboats and figures with a basket in the foreground.

Sea bay with large rocks left and fishermen

1769

Brown wash drawing of a poor farmhouse by water with laundry on a line, tall trees at left and two walking figures.

Poor farmhouse on a body of water, with laundry hung out

Brown drawing of a man and woman with a donkey beside a cottage and a large tree in a rural landscape.

Before a house under a large tree a man and a woman with a donkey

Hand-coloured print of the Holy Family resting in a forest with a donkey, a village and windmill in the valley beyond.

Rest on the Flight into Egypt

1788

Watercolor study of flower boughs with purple and blue blossoms and green foliage in flowing garland sprays.

Study of Flower Boughs for Woven Textile

1770

Sheet of seven stylized flower sprays and one naturalistic blossom drawn in grey and red chalk on cream paper.

Sprays of Seven ideal Flowers and of one quasi naturalistic flower

1800

Watercolor of fishermen working on a calm harbor shore beside sailing ships and a ruined tower with grazing cattle.

Port Scene in Calm Weather

1782

Stormy seascape with a shipwreck, survivors on rocks and in a rowboat, and wreckage tossed by dark blue waves.

The Shipwreck

1782

Pen and gray wash drawing of two figures in a vine-covered garden pavilion with a tiled roof and feathery plants.

Chinoiserie

Grey wash drawing of a ruined tower, a herdsman driving cattle along a path, and trees in a hazy rural landscape.

Landscape

1792

Grey wash drawing of a large tree beside a brook where a washerwoman and another figure work, with hills behind.

Washerwoman by a Brook

n.d.

Pencil drawing of a tall tree with a full leafy canopy and twisted trunk rising from dark ground with exposed roots.

Study of a Tree

n.d.

Brown wash drawing of three cows and a goat on a rocky ridge beneath a bare tree and a dark sky.

Cows and a Goat in a Landscape

1774

Pen and watercolor drawing of a fantastical garden with exotic plants, a thatched pavilion, a swing, and three small figures.

Fantastical Landscape with Exotic Plants and Three Figures

1771

Pen and watercolor drawing of an ice boat with a sail and skaters among stylized pine branches in a fantastical winter landsc

Fantastical Landscape with Exotic PLants, Two Skaters and a Man in an Iceboat

1771

Etching of a jester figure with a spear facing a winged serpent on a rock, beside a thatched pavilion and pine branches.

Plate 6, "Suite de douze Pêcheurs et Chasseurs"

1770

Jean-Baptiste Pillement (1728-1808) was a painter and etcher. Jean-Baptiste Pillement was born and died in Lyon. The work of Jean-Baptiste Pillement is associated with Rococo. Browse 94 works by Jean-Baptiste Pillement from 11 museums, free to download in HD. Source: Wikidata