# Peasants Resting and Dancing [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PILLEMENT, Jean-Baptiste]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Black chalk, stumping, grey wash, 355 x 483 mm ## Commentary This drawing shows a group of peasants relaxing and dancing to a piper in the sunshine by the side of a farmhouse. The present drawing can be dated to the 1780s, when Pillement was living in the south of France. Pillement had returned home, after working in the Iberian Peninsula, in the same year that the French Revolution broke out. Due to his ties to the monarchy, it seems probable that Pillement felt he was in some danger, and so rather than settle in Paris, or his native Lyon, he moved near the small town of Pézenas in the Hérault region. Here he found himself surrounded by a spectacular landscape that was to greatly influence his work. ## Related artworks - [Autumn]() - [Landscape]() - [Landscape]() - [Landscape with Washerwomen \(detail\)]() - [Landscape with Washerwomen]() - [Mountain Torrent]() - [Mountainous Landscape]() - [Pastoral Landscape with Shepherds]() - [River Landscape]() - [River Landscape]() - [Shipwrecked Sailors Coming Ashore]() - [Waterfall Landscape in Portugal]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()