Vegetables for the Soup

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardinabout 1732

Details

Title: Vegetables for the Soup
Creator Lifespan: 1699 - 1779
Creator Nationality: French
Creator Gender: Male
Date Created: about 1732
Type: oil paintings
Rights: James E. Roberts Fund
External Link: http://www.imamuseum.org/mercury/load-artwork/85
Medium: oil on canvas
wall label: This is one of the numerous small paintings of ordinary household subjects done by Chardin in the early 1730s. He frequently made use of the same repertory of objects - a copper pot, skimmer, glazed clay pitcher, cabbage, carrots, cucumbers, turnips - in other compositions. There is a profound orderliness and harmony in these arrangements of utensils and vegetables and a sense of moral certitude in their rustic simplicity. Such values were prized by the rising middle class, who made up most of Chardin's patrons.
measurements: 12 1/4 x 15 3/8 in.
Artist: Chardin, Jean-Siméon

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