In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
The exquisite handling of the pastel, crisp and colorful in the foreground while of the greatest subtlety in the atmospheric distance, bears out Pillement's reputation as the best 18th-century French artist of the pastel landscape. Landscapes in this period were most often picturesque creations, rather than literal transcriptions of nature. In this dramatically irregular countryside, shepherds, flocks, and rustic buildings create an air of idealized rural charm.
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Jan Wijnants (Dutch, 1635–1684) — Landscape with Hunters
Wolfgang Adam Töpffer — Landscape with a Young Girl at a Wat
Jan Both — Italiaans landschap met tekenaar
John Varley — Figures Beside a Waterfall and Pool in a Woode
Jacob van Ruisdael — The Forest Stream
Alexander Cozens — Figure in a Classical Landscape
Joseph Rebell (Austrian, 1787–1828) — An Italian View
Johann Georg Wagner — The Morning
Joris van der Haagen — Landscape with Fisherman with a squar
Anthonie Waterloo — Mercury and Argus
Ferdinand Kobell — Landscape with Lovers
Jan Both — An Italianate Evening Landscape
