DETAILS
- Artist
- Jean Pillement
- Date
- 1728
- Medium
- Black chalk with stumping, and graphite with a faint gray wash
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- 8 3/8 x 8 1/16 in. (21.3 x 20.4 cm.)
- Collection
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1954
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THE ARTIST
Jean Pillement
Jean Pillement, a globe-trotting French painter, spread the delicate Rococo and Chinoiserie styles across 18th-century Europe through his enchanting designs for textiles, porcelain, and royal palaces.
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