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Chinoiseries
Follower of Jean-Baptiste Pillement (1728-1808)
Estimate
10.000 - 15.000
Session 2
13 March 2019
Hammer Price
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A pair of oils on canvas
France, 1820-1850
85 x 100 cm (cada)
Category
Paintings
Additional Information
As a painter and engraver Jean Baptist Pillement (1728-1808) became famous for his Chinoiseries. His engraved work was very important for the spread of this fashion. Published in 1755 his "New Book of Chinese Ornaments Onvented & Engraved", London, elucidates us how the author adapted the traditional French Rococo to the Chinese models of his taste. The drawings published include typical French forms still in the Bèrain manner. Despite all this Pillement models were also spread by several other engravers that in the mid-18th century published more than three hundred drawings with Pillement motifs. In 1767 were published in Paris two hundred of those engravings, an so on...
From the early 19th century Chinoiseries became fashionable in a wider range of interior decorations. Pillement works and works in his "style" were applied in frescos, canvas, silks, painted papers, printed fabrics and furniture, among others.
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