Shepherds in a Landscape — About This Work
Jean Baptiste Pillement, 1779
About the Work
Shepherds and livestock occupy a landscape of rocks and tall trees. Pillement sets their smaller forms within a larger arrangement of vegetation and distance, inviting the eye to move from the inhabited foreground towards a softer atmosphere beyond.
The museum draws attention to the pastel's contrasting handling: sharper and more colourful nearby, subtler in the distance. That change gives the space depth without making every part equally detailed.
This is discussed as a picturesque invention rather than a literal record of one place. The figures contribute scale and activity, while the arrangement of rocks and trees provides the landscape with its own composed drama.
The Work
Artist: Jean Baptiste Pillement
Title: Shepherds in a Landscape
Date: 1779
Medium: Pastel
Recorded dimensions: 60.5 × 46.3 cm (W × H)
Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art
Accession number: 1973.1
Print & Presentation
Palatine presentation: 60 × 80 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. Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund. 1973.1.
Care: Display in a dry interior away from prolonged direct sunlight and sources of moisture.
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