Attribué à Nicolas Jacques JULLIARD (1719-1790)

PITTORAL LANDSCAPE, IN THE ENVIRONMENT OF ROME Paris, between 1753 and 1763 Oil on oak panel, Louis XV period frame 26 x 42 cm (with frame: 38 x 54 cm) Provenance Former personal collection of the art dealer Heim-Gairac Private collection, Paris, since 1998 Bibliography Handwritten note by Charles Sterling that this was one of the most beautiful paintings Nicolas Jacques Julliard had done, consulted at the documentation of the Musée du Louvre in 2004 This picturesque scene of a woman hanging linen in a landscape was inspired by the views of the Roman countryside that flourished in the 18th century. Nicolas Jacques Julliard had made the unmissable trip to Rome between 1749 and 1753, but the interpretation he gives here draws as much on the art of his master François Boucher as on that of Claude-Joseph Vernet. The panel is presented in an exceptional carved and redecorated oak frame from the Louis XIV period, whose carved spandrels evoke the work of Jean- Baptiste I Tilliard. Additional information given by the collector is accessible by QR Code in the PDF.