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Jean-Baptiste Pillement

Jean-Baptiste Pillement (1728 - 1808) was active/lived in France, Austria.  Jean Baptiste Pillement is known for Rococo landscape painting, engraving, design.

Jean-Baptiste Pillement was a painter and designer, known for his exquisite and delicate landscapes, but whose importance 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.

Pillement, born in Lyon, had an unusually cosmopolitan career. He moved from Paris, working for the Gobelin* factory. After a brief spell at the Gobelins, in 1745 he left for Madrid. He stayed there for three years, and his work was much appreciated both in Spain and in Portugal, which he visited often.


He supervised sets of Rococo singeries* and chinoiseries* painted for Quinta de Alegria, the house at Seteais, near Sintra, of the Dutch consul in Lisbon, Jan Gildemeester, and soon after he was offered the title of Painter to the King. He declined this honour and instead travelled to London.
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Facts about Jean-Baptiste Pillement

   Jean-Baptiste Pillement  Born:  1728 - Lyon, France
Died:   1808 - Lyon, France
Known for:  Rococo landscape painting, engraving, design
Name variants:  Jean Pillemont

Jean-Baptiste Pillement was a painter and designer, known for his exquisite and delicate landscapes, but whose importance 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.

Pillement, born in Lyon, had an unusually cosmopolitan career. He moved from Paris, working for the Gobelin* factory. After a brief spell at the Gobelins, in 1745 he left for Madrid. He stayed there for three years, and his work was much appreciated both in Spain and in Portugal, which he visited often.


He supervised sets of Rococo singeries* and chinoiseries* painted for Quinta de A  ...  Displaying 750 of 4577 characters.

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