Lot 151
Lot 151
JEAN-BAPTISTE PILLEMENT (LYON 1728-1808)

Paysage avec des paysans au bord d'une rivière

Price Realised EUR 22,680
Estimate
EUR 20,000 - EUR 30,000
Closed: 17 Nov 2023
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JEAN-BAPTISTE PILLEMENT (LYON 1728-1808)

Paysage avec des paysans au bord d'une rivière

Price Realised EUR 22,680
Closed: 17 Nov 2023
Price Realised EUR 22,680
Closed: 17 Nov 2023
Details
JEAN-BAPTISTE PILLEMENT (LYON 1728-1808)
Paysage avec des paysans au bord d'une rivière
signé et daté 'Jean Pillement / 17[?]2' (en bas, à gauche)
huile sur toile
38,3 x 54 cm. (1518 x 2114 in.)
Provenance
Frederick J. Quinn, Springfield, Clonmel.
Vente anonyme, Bennetts, Clonmel, 24 juin 1931, lot 97.
Collection particulière, Irlande.
Vente anonyme, Bonhams, Londres, 7 juillet 2020, lot 111.
FURTHER DETAILS
JEAN-BAPTISTE PILLEMENT, LANDSCAPE WITH PEASANTS BESIDE A RIVER, SIGNED AND DATED, OIL ON CANVAS

This elegant painting is characteristic of the work of Jean-Baptiste Pillement (1728-1808), who charmed all of 18th century Europe with the delicacy of his colouration. A great traveller, he left his native Lyon at a very young age. At just seventeen, he left for Spain and Portugal, where he refused the title of Painter to the King. His numerous commissions later took him to Poland and the court of King Stanislas II (1732-1798), to London, where he exhibited at the Society of Artists and the Free Society of Artists, and to Vienna, where he worked for the Prince of Lichtenstein, before finally returning to Paris.

At the beginning of the 20th Century, the present painting belonged to Frederick J. Quinn, an Irish wine merchant who put together a large collection of Old Master Paintings in Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland. At the time, when Ireland was still under the protestant English yoke, Quinn was one of the only Catholics to own a large house in the area.
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