Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin

1699–1779 · Rococo

Jean Siméon Chardin was an 18th-century French painter. He is considered a master of still life, and is also noted for his genre paintings which depict kitchen maids, children, and domestic activities. Carefully balanced composition, soft diffusion of light, and granular impasto characterize his work.

40 paintings

• The White Tablecloth (c. 1731–32)
• Still Life with a dead Pheasant and a Hunting Bag (1760)
• The Draughtsman (1737)
• Still Life with Fish, Vegetables, Gougères, Pots, and Cruets on a Table (1769)
• Still Life with Peaches, a Silver Goblet, Grapes, and Walnuts (1759)
• The Laundress (1735)
• Still Life with Attributes of the Arts (1766)
• Le Panier de fraises des bois (1761)
• Saying Grace (1744)
• Instruments de la Musique Militaire (1767)
• Le Singe peintre (1740)
• Melon, pears, peaches and plums (1763)
• Le Panier de raisins (1737)
• The antiquarian monkey (1740)
• A Lean Diet" with Cooking Utensils" (1731)
• Menu de maigre et Ustensiles de cuisine (1731)
• Draughtsman (1737)
• The Ray (1727)
• Le Buffet (1728)
• Allegory of Music, Arts and Science (1765)
• The Attributes of Civilian Music (1767)
• Boy with a Spinning-Top (1738)
• The Silver Tureen (ca. 1728–30)
• Soap Bubbles (ca. 1733–34)
• The Scullery Maid (c. 1738)
• Fruit, Jug, and a Glass (c. 1726/1728)
• Still Life with Game (probably 1750s)
• The Attentive Nurse (1747)
• The Kitchen Maid (1738)
• Still Life with a White Mug (c. 1764)
• The House of Cards (probably 1737)
• The Little Schoolmistress (after 1740)
• Soap Bubbles (probably 1733/1734)
• Tranche de saumon (1730)
• Still Life with a Hare (1730)
• Scullery Maid (1738)
• Still life with attributes of the arts (1724)
• Still Life With Cat and Fish (1728)
• Still-Life With Cat and Rayfish (1728)
• Girl with Racket and Shuttlecock (1740)