CHARDIN, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon
(b. 1699, Paris, d. 1779, Paris)

The Attributes of Painting and Sculpture

c. 1728
Oil on canvas, 64 x 92 cm
Private collection

This painting is amongst the earliest works of the artist. It is assumed by critics that this work was originally intended as a pendant to the early still-life of The Attributes of the Arts with a Bust of Mercury in the collection of the Pushkin Museum, Moscow.