The Scullery Maid
Jean Siméon Chardin
c. 1738
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 47 × 38.1 cm (18 1/2 × 15 in.) framed: 62.23 × 53.34 × 9.53 cm (24 1/2 × 21 × 3 3/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CF
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)
Accession Number
2014.79.708
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 ...