100 Great Artists

JEAN-BAPTISTE SIMEON CHARDIN

1699

1714 (?)

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SUlrtJ training

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1711

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The JUy (/728)

O"'"f ,b, pair (Ib< otb,r "'ar Lc Ruff<~) ,bal Chardin rllb"",,,d to ,b,

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Illb ... Y"""g 1xJp'/uh. at til< SRk", tk J'UlUn., Propk bad ""ITa}", tb.

eant"",,, 11K fik",irb niH lif" and tbry ,,"" romid.,.,d ~od ,_gil m go

flr.::ard "",",dimly ar Cban/in ', dipJ","" pi""

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h."lin .. "1< the I.,." ( .. tcnt~tjou< of own I'",it hourgc<~s hou<ehold .. cn: his ~""'S.

cighteenth_u:ntur), F rench I" interS .nd m.de thcir " ... )'onn, the " ... lIs of wuhh),a"

but iso/"ten cited, ",ith \\',.,t.,.~u, .. the Io,'crs all ",'cr Eu"'pe. l ie h.d .n instin", f"."

gre,,,,st. La"" admirers of his ,1J1oc;;tic sttnes tdling the eu", ox'ment when .. look 'l< gC;;tun:

wen: Cou , b.,t, \'~n Go g h .nd Gun"". could he crrstolli ",d for posterit),. ' Ii,gt:the,

There is no hint of Rococo IfJiet)' in ",ith th., gift, he h.d e,'ol,'ed • speci.1

Chardin's pictures, despite the emuhe"'nu: t"'hni,!"'" using thick br<TS of pigment ."d

sho",n hr othe, Htists of his dar such H thin, luminous gb",s to pmduu: JUSt tl>< right

Bo ucher .nd La""reL tcrture.a,"lplar "flight.

' Ii, hegin ",ith, he p",duu:d ,~ill·lili::s of Ch"din's h.ndling of tonal nlue< "'e,,,

.nim.ls .nd frui~ similar to the I" ir th., w,., impre~i"e enough, but the ,,·ritcr Dide,,,,

him his pl.u: ., the F,ench Aeademr. Then < ... lIed him 'the g"''' so,ecrot" because his

"",,'" his g<onno pcri,.1. with" nod to the Dutch pictures offe",d So much more. \ \r,thout

sch,.,1 but none o£the hcavr humour. pre.ching 'J< !itlse sentiment, he tapS into •

F<l< cight reus, the "",i,itic;; of Ch.nlin·s consciousne~ hcp",d out,,"'rd al""'''' ""c;;.

The Young Artist (/718)

L'bardin', ,,"en 'OO, Pi"""-J,un, around tb, ug'"f Jrt'nl. Draud in a bJt«

"",*ing apron, k i, picrurd ",itb a rrirhf ",bi" mall, in a Ixrltkr, rrudying a

drlrdng in front ofbim, Pi~ J''''' did in flXt gr(l"", up to k an iUn'" and

"'aT /iring in I mi" ill 1 767 ,,·hm b, di,d in my,,"io'" ,"""""a_,