A pastoral scene with three figures resting beside a road; Two beggars, one with a baby, and a boy in a landscape

Other similar studies depicting shepherds and shepherdesses by the artist are known (see Gordon-Smith, op. cit., nos. 308, 309, ill.). One of these can be dated 1804, when Pillement returned to his native Lyon after having spent much of his career between Vienna, Poland, France and Portugal.