Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin

(French, 1699–1779)

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin was an important 18th-century French painter known for his modestly scaled still-life paintings. In Chardin’s luminous works, each object is cast within an atmospheric harmony that transcends their materiality. “The beauty of its vast and delicate structure, tinted with red blood, blue nerves, and white muscles, is like the nave of a polychromatic cathedral,” Marcel Proust once wrote of the artist’s painting The Ray (c. 1726). Born on November 2, 1699 in Paris, France, he studied with history painters as a youth, before becoming a teacher at the Académie de Saint-Luc in 1724. The artist’s slowly built up surfaces and meditative gaze was out of the place in a time period dominated by the flowery style of Rococo painting. Chardin’s developed his technique through studying the works of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish painters, especially the vanitas still lifes of Pieter Claesz. During the course of his career, the artist made just over 200 paintings and maintained small yet loyal following. He died on December 6, 1779 in Paris, France. Chardin’s paintings were a major influence on a number of later French artists, including Édouard Manet, Paul Cézanne, and Henri Matisse. Today, his works are held in the collections of the Louvre Museum in Paris, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the National Gallery in London, among others.

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Still life with apricots in a basket, peaches,...

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Still life with apricots in a basket, peaches,...

Sale Date: December 7, 2004

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Peasants by a hut in a landscape, 1730

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Peasants by a hut in a landscape, 1730

Sale Date: December 8, 2004

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Un jeune écolier qui dessine, ou Le jeune...

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Un jeune écolier qui dessine, ou Le jeune...

Sale Date: June 24, 2004

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Trompe-l'oeil au bas-relief représentant le...

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Trompe-l'oeil au bas-relief représentant le...

Sale Date: June 25, 2004

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Still life of oysters, a lemon, glass and...

School of Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin

Still life of oysters, a lemon, glass and...

Sale Date: June 14, 2004

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Le singe antiquaire

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Le singe antiquaire

Sale Date: June 3, 2004

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Stilleben mit Schinken, Zitrone und Rotweinglas

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Stilleben mit Schinken, Zitrone und Rotweinglas

Sale Date: May 22, 2004

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Stilleben und Kind mit Puppe

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Stilleben und Kind mit Puppe

Sale Date: March 26, 2004

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La Bénédicité, 1742–1742

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La Bénédicité, 1742–1742

Sale Date: March 18, 2004

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Nature morte à la raie

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Nature morte à la raie

Sale Date: December 19, 2003

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A hare and a powder flask suspended from a nail,

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A hare and a powder flask suspended from a nail,

Sale Date: December 10, 2003

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Woman and child tending chickens

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Woman and child tending chickens

Sale Date: November 18, 2003

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A still life with a pot, a saucepan, a...

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A still life with a pot, a saucepan, a...

Sale Date: October 30, 2003

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Still life with peaches in a bowl on a round table

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Still life with peaches in a bowl on a round table

Sale Date: April 8, 2003

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Still life with a ray-fish, a basket of onions,...

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Still life with a ray-fish, a basket of onions,...

Sale Date: January 23, 2003

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A ham, a terracotta bowl, a copper cauldron,...

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A ham, a terracotta bowl, a copper cauldron,...

Sale Date: November 6, 2002

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Cat and fish

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Cat and fish

Sale Date: October 27, 2002

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The attributes of Painting and Sculpture

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The attributes of Painting and Sculpture

Sale Date: June 5, 2002

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La jeune mère et son enfant au toton

In the manner of Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin

La jeune mère et son enfant au toton

Sale Date: April 7, 2002

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Stilleben

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Stilleben

Sale Date: March 21, 2002

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Kitchen still life with copper..., 1730–1735

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Kitchen still life with copper..., 1730–1735

Sale Date: January 24, 2002

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Le dessinateur

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Le dessinateur

Sale Date: November 13, 2000

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A copper cauldron, a pestle and mortar, a...

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A copper cauldron, a pestle and mortar, a...

Sale Date: July 7, 2000

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Leeks, a casserole with a cloth, a..., 1734–1734

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin

Leeks, a casserole with a cloth, a..., 1734–1734

Sale Date: May 26, 2000

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