The Shipwreck

1782

Jean Baptiste Pillement
French, 1728-1808

Status: On View, Gallery 216
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Jean Baptiste Pillement
Title: The Shipwreck
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1782
Medium: Pastel on gessoed canvas
Inscriptions: Signed and dated, lower left, in white: “ J. Pillement / 1782”
Dimensions: 57.5 × 91 cm (22 11/16 × 35 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 2018.194
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Lisbon, Fundaçao Ricardo do Espirito Santo Silva, Jean Pillement e o paisagismo em Portugal no século XVIII, 1996, cat. 36, n.p. (color ills.).

The artist to M. Mariant [inscription on back of stretcher]. Private collection, England. Sold by Simon Dickinson, London, to Miguel Maria de Sá Pais do Amaral, 4th Count of Alferrarede (born 1954), Lisbon, Portugal, early 1990s; sold, Christies, Paris, Nov. 28, 2017, lots 610–611, to Didier Aaron, Paris; sold to the Art Institute, 2018

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