Still Life with a White Mug

Still Life with a White Mug by Jean Siméon Chardin

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 33.1 x 41.2 cm (13 1/16 x 16 1/4 in.) framed: 52.1 x 60 x 6 cm (20 1/2 x 23 5/8 x 2 3/8 in.)

Classification

Painting

Department

CF

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Gift of the W. Averell Harriman Foundation in memory of Marie N. Harriman

Accession Number

1972.9.6

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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