About the Artwork
A Rocky Landscape
1783
Jean Baptiste Pillement
1728-1808
French
Unknown
Gouache and pastel on paper, mounted on canvas
Sheet: 14 5/16 × 20 1/4 inches (36.4 × 51.4 cm) Framed: 20 1/2 × 26 1/2 × 2 1/4 inches (52.1 × 67.3 × 5.7 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund
69.209
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed and dated, lower left: J. Pillement 1783
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Stamped, verso: Christies | no. 622SA Stamped, on frame, verso: no. 884 | Jean Pillement | P.V. Mark: Peter Vischer-Sarasin (Lugt suppl. 2115)
Provenance
1788, Peter Vischer (cat. no. 884) (Basel, Switzerland)
by descent to Walter A. Staehelin (Bern, Switzerland)
July 1, 1969, (Christie's, London, England) lot 130
1969-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Jean Baptiste Pillement, A Rocky Landscape, 1783, gouache and pastel on paper, mounted on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 69.209.
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