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Still Life with Copper Pot, Cheese and Eggs
Artist: Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
Dated: ca. 1730 - 1735
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699 –1779) was an 18th-century French painter. He is considered a master of still life, and also his genre paintings which show kitchen maids, children, and domestic activities. Carefully balanced composition, soft diffusion of light characterize his work. He was born in Paris, the son of a cabinetmaker, and he rarely left the city. He lived on the Left Bank in Paris until 1757, when Louis XV granted him a studio and living quarters in the Louvre. Starting in 1737, he exhibited regularly at the Salon. and over the next fifty years he was counsellor, treasurer, and secretary and in charge of overseeing the installation of Salon exhibitions in 1761. Louis XV granted him a pension of 500 livres in 1752. By 1770 he was the ‘First Painter to the King’, and his pension of 1,400 livres was the highest in the Academy.
He worked very slowly and painted only slightly more than 200 pictures (about four a year) in total. Nowadays they serve as an incredible source of information about this level of French society. His influence on the art including of the modern day is vast : Édouard Manet', Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, and later Lucian Freud.
Chardin said about painting, "Who said one paints with colours? One employs colours, but one paints with feeling."
Artist: Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
Dated: ca. 1730 - 1735
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699 –1779) was an 18th-century French painter. He is considered a master of still life, and also his genre paintings which show kitchen maids, children, and domestic activities. Carefully balanced composition, soft diffusion of light characterize his work. He was born in Paris, the son of a cabinetmaker, and he rarely left the city. He lived on the Left Bank in Paris until 1757, when Louis XV granted him a studio and living quarters in the Louvre. Starting in 1737, he exhibited regularly at the Salon. and over the next fifty years he was counsellor, treasurer, and secretary and in charge of overseeing the installation of Salon exhibitions in 1761. Louis XV granted him a pension of 500 livres in 1752. By 1770 he was the ‘First Painter to the King’, and his pension of 1,400 livres was the highest in the Academy.
He worked very slowly and painted only slightly more than 200 pictures (about four a year) in total. Nowadays they serve as an incredible source of information about this level of French society. His influence on the art including of the modern day is vast : Édouard Manet', Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, and later Lucian Freud.
Chardin said about painting, "Who said one paints with colours? One employs colours, but one paints with feeling."