giving lessons in the Academy founded by Napoleon. He remained in his native Lyon until his death in 1808. Works Pillement's illustrations are a mixture of fantastic birds, flora & fauna, large human figures and chinoiserie. He often worked with printmakers such as Anne Allen (artist), who would become his wife. His designs were used by several engravers and decorators on porcelain and pottery, but also on textiles, wallpaper and silver. Pillement had discovered in 1764 a new method of printing on silk with fast colours (recorded in his Memoirs). One of his prime vehicles was the single print marketed independently of an album. He published many albums, one is: Œùvre de fleurs, ornements, cartouches, figures et sujets chinois (1776). Collections Art Institute of Chicago Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (British Columbia) British Museum Cleveland Museum of Art Courtauld Institute of Art (London) Getty Museum Honolulu Museum of Art Indiana University Art Museum (Bloomington, Indiana) Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City) Museum der bildenden Künste (Leipzig, Germany) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.) Palazzo Pitti (Florence) Gulbenkian Museum (Lisbon, Portugal) Philadelphia Museum of Art Château du Grand Lucé, France References Sources Gruber, A. (1992) The History of Decorative Arts, Classicism and the Baroque in Europe, p. 249. Gordon-Smith, Maria. (2006) PILLEMENT. (Monograph, edited by Michael Lederer and Joanna Wolanska.) External links Bibliothèque numérique de l'INHA - Estampes de Jean Pillement Finding Aid for Jean Pillement etchings at the Getty Research Institute 1728 births 1808 deaths 18th-century French painters 19th-century French painters 18th-century French male artists 19th-century French male artists French expatriates in Portugal French male painters Rococo painters