Exotic places to cover your drawing room walls. If you wish hard enough maybe you can time travel back and be in them. French. Jean-Baptiste Pillement, artist. Living from 1728 to 1808, he did design work for the silk industry when he wasn’t painting landscapes.

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“A Chinoiserie Procession of Figures riding on Elephants with Temples beyond” 18th c. Oil on canvas. Collections of the Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu. In the public domain in the United States because the artist has been dead over 100 years. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean-Baptiste_Pillement_-_A_chinoiserie_procession_of_figures_riding_on_elephants_with_temples,_oil_on_canvas.jpg
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“A Walk in the Park.” 18th c. Gouache. Image © 2020 incollect.com. Fair use license. via https://www.incollect.com/listings/fine-art/works-on-paper/jean-baptiste-pillement-a-walk-in-the-park-308473
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“A Shepherd and a Shepherdess in a Mountainous Landscape.” 1783. Oil on canvas. Signed and date “J. Pillement/1783,” on the lower left. Image © 2020 Dorotheum GmbH & Co KG. Fair use license. via https://www.dorotheum.com/en/l/6002097/

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