The Understated Brilliance of Jean Siméon Chardin

The beauty of ordinary things...

Jun 19, 2024

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*Soap Bubbles (*c.1733/34) by Jean Siméon Chardin. Oil on canvas. 93 × 74.6 cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., U.S.

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Some artists depict the most explosive or awe-inspiring subjects in their art. They are drawn to the impressive, gruesome or magnificent sides of life.

The 18th-century painter Jean Siméon Chardin took the opposite appr…

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