short biography

Jean-Siméon Chardin (called Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, b. 1999, Paris, d. 1799, Paris) was a genre and later almost exclusively still-life painter. In 1728 he became a member of the Académie Royale Paris. Important works are "Lady sealing a letter", 1733; "The Kitchen Maid", 1738; The strawberry basket, 1761, Porcelain jug, grapes and pomegranates, 1763.

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collection/s

Ball State University Museum of Art Baltimore Museum of Art ° Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, Washington LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art Louvre Paris MASP - Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (renovation) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston National Gallery of Art, Washington ° National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena Philadelphia Museum of Art Phillips Collection, Washington Sammlung Oskar Reinhart Am Römerholz, Winterthur Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin Scottish National Galleries, Edinburgh Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg / RUS Städel Museum, Frankfurt Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford
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galleries

Emanuel von Baeyer Cabinet, London
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