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Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin Biography

French Rococo artist
born 1699 - died 1779

Teacher of: Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) in 1738

Chardin, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon (1699-1779). French painter, one of the greatest of the 18th century, whose genre and still life paintings documented the life of the Paris bourgeoisie. Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin favored simple still lifes and unsentimental domestic interiors. his muted tones and ability to evoke textures are seen in Benediction and Return from Market (Louvre) and Blowing Bubbles and Mme Chardin (Metropolitan Museum). his unusual abstract compositions had great influence.

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin was born in Paris, November 2, 1699, the son of a cabinetmaker. Largely self-taught, he was strongly influenced by 17th-century Low Country masters such as Metsu and de Hooch. Like them, Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin devoted himself to simple subjects and common themes. his lifelong work in this style contrasted sharply with the heroic historical subjects and lighthearted rococo scenes that constituted the mainstream of art during the mid-18th century.

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin was admitted to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1728 on the basis of two early still life, The Skate and The Buffet (both 1728, Louvre, Paris). In the 1730s, he began to paint scenes of everyday life in bourgeois Paris, among them Lady Sealing a Letter (1733, former State Museums, Berlin), Scouring Maid (1738, Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, Scotland), and The Benediction (1740, Louvre). Characterized by subdued colors and mellow lighting, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin paintings celebrate the beauty of their commonplace subjects and project an aura of humanity, intimacy, and honest domesticity. Chardin's technical skill gave his paintings an uncannily realistic texture. Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin rendered forms by means of light by using thick, layered brushstrokes and thin, luminous glazes. Called the grand magician by critics, Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin achieved a mastery in these areas unequaled by any other 18th-century painter. His early support came from aristocratic patrons, including King Louis XV. Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin later gained a wider popularity when engraved copies of his paintings were produced. The painter turned to pastels in later life when his eyesight began to fail. Unappreciated at the time, these pastels are now highly valued. Chardin died in Paris, December 6, 1779.

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin still life painting