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PILLEMENT by Maria Gordon-Smith
Foreword by Alastair Laing
2006
312 × 238 mm, 416 pages
over 400 colour illustrations, many full-page colour plates
laminated hardback, with dust jacket
ISBN 978-83-89831-00-2
On the cover: A Chinese Musician, oil on canvas, 44.5 × 34.3 cm, signed and dated bottom left: Jean Pillement 1768. Private collection.
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“[...] Pillement was a
universal artist, one whose multifarious and ubiquitous activities
have long cried out for serious extended treatment such as the
present book”.
from the Foreword by Alastair Laing
This
is the first comprehensive monograph of the French artist
Jean-Baptiste Pillement (1728–1808), painter and designer,
known to wider audiences mostly for his exquisite and delicate
landscapes but whose importance in the history of art lies primarily
in the engravings done after his drawings and their influence in
spreading the Rococo style, and particularly the taste for
chinoiserie, throughout Europe.
This
lavishly illustrated book reproduces hundreds of Pillement’s
drawings, prints and paintings (done in various media, from
watercolours through pastels to oils), from public and private
collections worldwide, many of which are published here for the first
time. Subsequent chapters encompass not only the whole long life and
artistic activity of Jean Pillement but also include a study of his
influence on decorative arts, visible even today, almost 200 years
after his death.
The
book includes a Bibliography, List of illustrations and Index.
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Alastair Laing
Introduction
I. The Formative Years (1728–1754)
II. The London Achievements(1754–1763)
III. Rejection by the French Art Establishment (1762–1764)
IV. Jean Pillement at the Imperial Court of Maria Theresa and Francis I in Vienna (1763–1765)
V. Jean Pillement at the Court of King Stanislaw August of Poland (1765–1767)
VI. The French Achievements in Avignon and Paris (1768–1780)
VII. Pillement’s Second Stay in the Iberian Peninsula (1780–1789)
VIII. Pillement’s Achievements in Pézenas (1789–1800)
IX. The Last Achievements in Lyon (1800–1808)
X. Pillement’s Life after Life: His Influence on Decorative Arts Yesterday and Today
Notes
BIBLIOGRAPHY
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
INDEX
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