Jean Siméon Chardin (Nov 2, 1699 - Dec 6, 1779, French)

Soap Bubbles, c. 1733-34.

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2/2 A pitcher, and a bowl of plums, 1728. Masterful understatement of Chardin's still lives. It's his day today.

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Born on this day in 1699, Jean-Simeon Chardin. Here giving hiself a look in 1771.

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“One employs colours, but one paints with feeling."

And the modernists loved him for it 200 years later. French master of still life Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin was born 1699 in Paris.

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Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves." — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Jean-Baptiste Chardin (1699-1779), pittore francese, autore soprattutto di nature morte, di quadri aventi come soggetto i giochi semplici dell'infanzia.

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🖌 Jean Chardin

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1728 Jean Siméon Chardin is admitted to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture as a painter of still lifes...

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Jean-siméon Chardin - The Brioche or The Dessert

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Madeleine Castaing became his patron (1930-5) & he held an exhibit in Chicago (1935). The Ray (c1922), Portrait of a Child in Blue (c1928), Still Life with Ray (c1924) & Oscar Miestchaninoff (1924). In his paintings of fish he is investigating the work of Chardin

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Naturaleza muerta (detalle), 1887
Su obra característica refleja menos la influencia de sus maestros académicos que el estudio de las pinturas de Chardin que había visto en el Louvre y las obras de contemporáneos realistas como Antoine Vollon y Théodule Ribot. 🌺

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‘Dame Marjorie "Maude" Chardin & Harold Parker Chasen’ … as played by Ruth Gordon & Bud Cort in Hal Ashby’s ‘Harold & Maude’ … Soundtrack: ‘Suicide Is Painless’ by Johnny Mandel

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‘Dame Marjorie "Maude" Chardin & Harold Parker Chasen’ … as played by Ruth Gordon & Bud Cort in Hal Ashby’s ‘Harold & Maude’ … Soundtrack: ‘Suicide Is Painless’ by Johnny Mandel          

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Kitchen Utensils with Leeks, Fish, and Eggs, Jean-Siméon Chardin, c. 1734 https://t.co/wDKtKijm9l

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Kitchen Utensils with Leeks, Fish, and Eggs, Jean-Siméon Chardin, c. 1734 https://t.co/wDKtKijm9l

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The importance of table linen. Terbrugghen. Chardin

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🧡Chardin had specialized in the still life genre,and no other French still life painter of the 18th century approached the subject with as much artistic freedom as he did. Still Life with Tin Pitcher and Peaches Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin https://t.co/MyUujnRj9I

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today! The 1930s art deco hotel (on left) has seen lots of action from the likes of Edward and Mrs Simpson, Agatha Christie etc and the 700 year old has seen even more. Sea tractor not to be missed.

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