Rural Scene — About This Work
Jean Baptiste Pillement, 1762
About the Work
Figures and livestock gather beneath a tree beside water. Pillement combines familiar rural elements into a compact scene whose activity is held within a broad landscape structure.
Black chalk or crayon establishes the image, while brown-ink framing lines give it a defined boundary on the sheet. The distinction between the drawn scene and its surrounding paper remains part of the work's appearance.
The small figures encourage close attention without overwhelming their setting. Their relationship with the tree and water gives the composition a human measure, allowing the landscape to be read through both its larger forms and its quieter incidents.
The Work
Artist: Jean Baptiste Pillement
Title: Rural Scene
Date: 1762
Medium: Black chalk or black crayon; framing lines in brown ink
Recorded dimensions: 44.4 × 28.1 cm (W × H)
Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art
Accession number: 2010.290
Print & Presentation
Palatine presentation: 40 × 60 cm Classic Frame, landscape.
The complete artwork is reproduced at its recorded scale, subject only to negligible whole-pixel rounding, without enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion. The surrounding white presentation area accommodates the artwork within the framed presentation and is incorporated into the print rather than added as a separate mount.
Frame finishes: Black, White or Natural.
Paper & glazing: Enhanced Matte + Perspex; or Enhanced Matte + Moth-Eye.
Why Original Scale?
Most art-print shops offer the same image in a choice of Small, Medium and Large sizes. We take a different approach. For each edition, we begin with the recorded dimensions of the original work and reproduce the complete image at that scale, preserving its proportions and avoiding enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion.
Source: Image: The Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0. Bequest of Muriel Butkin. 2010.290.
Care: Display in a dry interior away from prolonged direct sunlight and sources of moisture.
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