Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002896Pastoral Scene
Provenance
Sold by Germain Seligman, New York, to the Art Institute, 1975.
Exhibition history
South Bend, Ind., Art Gallery of the University of Notre Dame, "18th Century France: A Study of its Art and Civilization," 1972, cat. 74. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago," January 24-March 28, 1976, pp. 62-63, cat. 55 (ill.). Melbourne, Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, "Pleasures and Pastorales," February 14-April 16, 1990; traveled to Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, May 2-June 24, 1990.
Publications
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the 18th Century (Chicago, 1977), no. 2D8.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean Baptiste Pillement / French, 1728-1808
- Date
- 1771
- Medium
- Black chalk, with stumping, and brown chalk, on ivory laid paper, discolored to tan, laid down on cream wove card
- Dimensions
- 26.8 × 41.4 cm (10 9/16 × 16 5/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- charcoal
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Mr. & Mrs. Henry C. Woods Fund income, Print and Drawing Club Fund
- Accession no.
- 1975.39
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