Artist · 14 prints
Jean-Siméon Chardin Prints
About Jean-Siméon Chardin
Jean-Siméon Chardin (1699–1779) was a French painter, born in Paris on 2 November 1699, the son of a carpenter. He trained with the painter Pierre-Jacques Cazes and assisted Noël-Nicolas Coypel. In 1728 he was admitted to the Royal Academy as a painter of animals and fruit, presenting The Ray, now in the Louvre. He spent his life in Paris and died there on 6 December 1779, in his lodgings at the Louvre.
Chardin painted still lifes of kitchen objects and fruit, and from the early 1730s to the early 1750s mainly quiet scenes of ordinary domestic life: servants at work, children at play, a mother and child at table. He learned from Dutch painting of everyday life. Key works include Soap Bubbles (about 1733–34) at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, and Saying Grace (1744) in the Hermitage. As his eyesight weakened in the 1770s he turned to pastel portraits. The writer Denis Diderot was one of Jean-Siméon Chardin's great champions.
Jean-Siméon Chardin prints: reproductions of still lifes, domestic scenes and portraits by the French painter Jean-Siméon Chardin, made between 1728 and 1776. The collection includes The Silver Goblet (1728), Soap Bubbles (1733), The House of Cards (1737), The Little Schoolmistress (1740) and Self-Portrait with a Visor (1776).
This selection covers the three parts of his work. There are still lifes of goblets, fruit, flowers and a ray with onions; quiet household scenes of kitchen maids, a nurse and children at play; and his late pastel portraits of himself and his wife. The colours are soft browns, creams and muted greens, with calm, even light.
The still lifes suit kitchens and dining rooms; the domestic scenes and portraits work well in living rooms, studies and children's rooms. All prints are museum-quality reproductions, available unframed or framed with acrylic glazing, with free shipping and import duties covered.
