The Scullery Maid

The Scullery Maid by Jean Siméon Chardin

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 · 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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