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

Fruit, Jug, and a Glass

1726-28
Oil on canvas, 34 x 43 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington

This composition of powerful concentration, along with a group of richly impastoed still-lifes representing foodstuffs and utensils, can be related in style to The Ray and The Buffet (both in the Louvre) and dated similarly to about 1728.




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