Fleures Baroques inventées, et dessinées par Jean Pillement. Premiere peintre du Roy de Pologne. Se vendent chez Leviez, Rue St Andres des Arts, vis-a-vis l’Hotel de Chateau Vieux A Paris.
by PILLEMENT, JEAN / HESS, JOHANN HEINRICH
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Paris, Leviez, n.d. (circa 1766). Six etchings of fantasy flowers in the baroque style : one ornate title and five plates. (size: paper 34 x 24,5 cm, plates 24 x 16,5 cm). All plates are signed by Hess and five are signed by Pillemont.
Complete series of etchings by artist Jean Pillement (1728-1808) and engraved by Johann Heinrich Hess (1746-1816), published by Charles Leviez (1708-1778), printseller in Paris from 1766.
Jean Pillement was a French painter and engraver known for his depictions of imaginary flowers and decors. In London, he publishes the first book concerning Chinese drawings with his theories about ornements and orientalism: " A New Book of Chinese Ornaments. Invented & Engraved by J. Pillement ", 1755.
As the crown's official painter, he designed a Chinese salon for Stanislas II, king of Poland (1764-1795) around the same time these plates were drawn, and became in 1778 the painter for Marie-Antoinette.
His work is later defined as quintessentially Rococo, even as the times and styles evolved, leaving the talented artist, as so many, to die in poverty.
This vegetation is a particularly discrete variation of his work: lush and inventive, the black lines take their inspiration in contemporary garments and fabrics. With grace, these fantasy flowers and leaves flow through the page, oscillating between beauty and danger.
[c.f. Berlin Kat 449].
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- Fleures Baroques inventées, et dessinées par Jean Pillement. Premiere peintre du Roy de Pologne. Se vendent chez Leviez, Rue St Andres des Arts, vis-a-vis l’Hotel de Chateau Vieux A Paris.
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- PILLEMENT, JEAN / HESS, JOHANN HEINRICH
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- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- c. 1766
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