Landscape

The French painter, Jean Pillement, visited Portugal on several occasions, where he was able to fully explore his taste for painting bucolic and artificial landscapes.
This landscape, with figures by the side of a river, seems to have been the fruit of the artist’s imagination.
It is a work that portrays a theme of everyday life, as if it were already announcing some of the canons of Realism. However, the colours are still reminiscent of the palette used in neoclassical painting, while the tree elements suggest an influence of Rococo.