Art, literature & history
Persian Flowers
1755
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Medium
- series of 6 etchings
- Collection no.
- 2022.250
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-Baptiste Pillement. Persian Flowers. Jean-Baptiste Pillement; The Cleveland Museum of Art; Carole W. and Charles B. Rosenblatt Endowment Fund. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art
About this artwork
Persian Flowers — Jean-Baptiste Pillement. 1755.
Medium: series of 6 etchings. Dimensions: .
Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Jean Baptiste Pillement was one of the most influential designers of the Rococo period, known for his varied and prolific chinoiseries (European variants of Chinese and Japanese motifs). His designs were spread throughout Europe primarily via their translation into prints. This print is one of a set of six etched by Pillement himself. Each depicts a so-called “Persian” flower, largely fantasies, presenting strange, alienlike floral forms that could be adapted to various uses from textiles to wall decorations.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.