Soap Bubbles
Jean Siméon Chardin
ca. 1733–34
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
24 x 24 7/8 in. (61 x 63.2 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Wentworth Fund, 1949
Accession Number
49.24
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
BoysMenBubbles
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 ...