Barefoot Woman Seated on Ground
Medium
Graphite with brush and gray wash and touches of black gouache, heightened with white gouache, on ivory wove paper prepared with a greenish-gray wash, laid down on ivory laid card
Dimensions
21.1 × 25.4 cm (8 5/16 × 10 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
109112
About the Artist
Jean Siméon Chardin · 1699–1779
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, born on November 2, 1699, in Paris to a cabinetmaker father who crafted billiard tables, grew up immersed in the city's artisan world on the Left Bank near Saint-Sulpice. His early training came through apprenticeships with the history painters Pierre-Jacques Cazes, where he honed academic drawing techniques, and Noël-Nicolas Coypel, whose assignment to copy a musket ...