Olga's Gallery
Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin
(1699-1779)
Biography
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Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin was an artist of the early 18th century. At this time the predominant form of art was Rococo, mostly associated with merriment and pleasure. Paintings of elegant carnivals, erotic nudity and romantic trysts were abundant, while reality seemed all but absent from the world of art, which is precisely what makes Chardin’s works stand out among the rest of the eighteenth century. His still-lifes are plain and unembellished, and depict the real world that he saw around him, rather than a Rococo fantasy. Chardin was born in 1699 in Paris to the family of a master-carpenter. He lived his entire life in the district of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, where he was also christened at the Church of Saint-Sulpice. Read Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin's Full Biography
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Self-Portrait with an Eye-Shade. 1775. Pastel on paper. 46 x 38 cm. Louvre, Paris, France. 
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The Billiard Game. c.1721-25. Oil on canvas. 55 x 82.5 cm. Musée Carnavalet, Paris, France.
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The Ray-Fish. 1725-26. Oil on canvas. 114 x 146 cm. Louvre, Paris, France.
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Carafe, Silver Goblet and Fruit. c.1728. Oil on canvas. 55 x 40 cm. Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany.
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The Buffet. 1728. Oil on canvas. 194 x 129 cm. Louvre, Paris, France.
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Wild Rabbit with Game-Bag and Powder Flask. 1728-30. Oil on canvas. 81 x 65 cm. Louvre, Paris, France.
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A Green-Neck Duck with a Seville Orange. 1728-30. Oil on canvas. 80.5 x 64.5 cm. Musee de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France.
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The Attributes of the Sciences. 1731. Oil on canvas. 141 x 219.5 cm. Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, France.
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The Fast Day Meal. 1731. Oil on canvas. 33 x 41 cm. Louvre, Paris, France.
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Still Life with Herrings. c. 1731. Oil on canvas. 32 x 39 cm. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK.
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A "Lean Diet" with Cooking Utensils. 1731. Oil on canvas. 33 x 43 cm. Louvre, Paris, France.
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Lady Sealing a Letter. 1733. Oil on canvas. 146 x 147 cm, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
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Woman at the Urn. 1733. Oil on panel. 38 x 45 cm. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden.
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The Laundress. 1733. Oil on canvas. 37.5 x 42.5 cm. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Soap Bubbles. 1733-5. Oil on canvas. 93 x 74.5 cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA.
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Copper Cauldron with Three Eggs. c.1734. Oil on panel. 12 x 21 cm. Louvre, Paris, France.
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The Copper Water Urn. c.1734. Oil on panel. 28.5 x 23 cm. Louvre, Paris, France.
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Portrait of the Painter Joseph Aved. 1734. Oil on canvas. 138 x 105 cm. Louvre, Paris, France.
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Portrait of Charles Godefroy. c.1734-35. Oil on canvas. 67.5 x 74.5 cm. Louvre, Paris, France.
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Lady Taking Tea. 1735. Oil on canvas. 80 x 101 cm. Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow, UK.
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