Musée No:397.107
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The Kitchen Maid
Artist: Jean Siméon Chardin
Dated: 1738
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699 –1779) 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. Born in Paris, the son of a cabinetmaker, and he rarely left the city. He lived on the Left Bank in Paris until 1757, when Louis XV granted him a studio and living quarters in the Louvre.
Chardin worked very slowly and painted only slightly more than 200 pictures (about four a year) in total. At a time when history painting was considered the supreme classification for public art, Chardin's subjects were viewed as minor categories. Largely self-taught, he was influenced by the realism and subject matter of the 17th-century Dutch masters. He was popular for paintings of animals and fruit, but by the 1730s he introduced kitchen utensils into his workalong with day-to-day scenes which now serve as a fabulous source of documentary information about this level of French society. Chardin's influence on the art including of the modern day is wide-ranging : Édouard Manet's, Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse ,Chaim Soutine, Georges Braque, and later Lucian Freud, to name but a few.
Chardin said about painting, "Who said one paints with colours? One employs colours, but one paints with feeling."
Artist: Jean Siméon Chardin
Dated: 1738
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699 –1779) 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. Born in Paris, the son of a cabinetmaker, and he rarely left the city. He lived on the Left Bank in Paris until 1757, when Louis XV granted him a studio and living quarters in the Louvre.
Chardin worked very slowly and painted only slightly more than 200 pictures (about four a year) in total. At a time when history painting was considered the supreme classification for public art, Chardin's subjects were viewed as minor categories. Largely self-taught, he was influenced by the realism and subject matter of the 17th-century Dutch masters. He was popular for paintings of animals and fruit, but by the 1730s he introduced kitchen utensils into his workalong with day-to-day scenes which now serve as a fabulous source of documentary information about this level of French society. Chardin's influence on the art including of the modern day is wide-ranging : Édouard Manet's, Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse ,Chaim Soutine, Georges Braque, and later Lucian Freud, to name but a few.
Chardin said about painting, "Who said one paints with colours? One employs colours, but one paints with feeling."
