Fruit, Jug, and a Glass

Fruit, Jug, and a Glass by Jean Siméon Chardin

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 33.5 x 43 cm (13 3/16 x 16 15/16 in.) framed: 49.5 x 59.4 x 7.6 cm (19 1/2 x 23 3/8 x 3 in.)

Classification

Painting

Department

CF

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Chester Dale Collection

Accession Number

1943.7.4

About the Artist

Jean Siméon Chardin · 16991779

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 ...

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