# Mountain Torrent [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PILLEMENT, Jean-Baptiste]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 50 x 61 cm ## Commentary 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. The present painting exemplifies Pillement's work during this period. ## Related artworks - [Autumn]() - [Landscape]() - [Landscape]() - [Landscape with Washerwomen \(detail\)]() - [Landscape with Washerwomen]() - [Mountainous Landscape]() - [Pastoral Landscape with Shepherds]() - [Peasants Resting and Dancing]() - [River Landscape]() - [River Landscape]() - [Shipwrecked Sailors Coming Ashore]() - [Waterfall Landscape in Portugal]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()