Jean Siméon Chardin (French: [ʒɑ̃ simeɔ̃ ʃaʁdɛ̃]; November 2, 1699 – December 6, 1779 [1]) was an 18th-century French painter. [2] He is considered a master of still life, [3] and is also noted for his …

Few artists in history have painted inanimate objects with such intricacy or luminosity as the legendary Chardin.

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (French: [ʃaʁdɛ̃]; November 2, 1699 – December 6, 1779) was an 18th-century French painter. He is considered a master of still life, and is also noted for his genre …

Today Chardin is considered the greatest still-life painter of the 18th century, and his canvases are coveted by the world’s most distinguished museums and collectors.

Chardin and his patrons appreciated seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art, including earthy still-lifes that departed from courtly splendor. Chardin set up a careful balance of form that contrasts the …

Juste Chevillet, Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin, after 1771, etching and engraving on laid paper, Rosenwald Collection, 1946.11.15

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 …

Chardin, a carpenter's son, was born in Paris. He was apprenticed to the painter P.-J. Cazes, and also assisted Noel-Nicolas Coypel, passing through the Académie de St-Luc. His output falls into …

"We have learned from Chardin that a pear is as living as a woman, that an ordinary piece of pottery is as beautiful as a precious stone," wrote novelist Marcel Proust.

He might have claimed he did not need to visit Rome or the Netherlands. Like many artists at the time, Chardin was born into the artisan class (his father manufactured billiard tables), which introduced …