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| Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin art links |
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Still Life with Attributes of the Arts, 1766
The Laundress, 1730s
Saying Grace (Le Benedicite), 1744
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Still Life with Fish, Vegetables, Gougères, Pots, and Cruets
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
3 works online by Chardin
Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Grace, ca.1740
Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Pipes and Drinking Pitcher, ca.1737
Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Ray, ca.1725-26
Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Self-portrait with Spectacles, 1771
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Artworks in the museum's collections database
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
Still Life with Leg of Lamb, 1730
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Drawings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery, London, UK
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Still Life with Partridge and Pear
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Still Life with a Rib of Beef
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Jar of Apricots
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana
The Bird-Song Organ, ca.1751
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
The Scullery Maid
Frick Collection, New York City NEW!
Lady with a Bird-Organ
Still Life with Plums
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas NEW!
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
The Attributes of the Arts, 1766
Musée Cognacq-Jay, Paris
Nature morte au chaudron de cuivre
Musée des Beaux Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon, France (in French)
Portrait de vieille femme, pastel
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, France (in French)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French)
(If the image is not clickable, click "Agrandir l'image" to enlarge the image)
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese)
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Le Bénédicité, 1761
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Still Life with Ray and Basket of Onions, 1731
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille, France (in French)
Les Apprêts d'un déjeuner
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
The Silver Goblet, ca.1728
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany ( in German)
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
Virtual Uffizi
Boy Playing Cards
Girl with Racket and Shuttlecock
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin at The Art Renewal Center
Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin at The Artchive
Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin in the Web Gallery of Art
Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin in the WebMuseum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation
Still Life Paintings: 19th Century Painting Techniques
The Age of Enlightenment in the Paintings of France's National Museums
The Ray
The Modernist Journals Project
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Frieze Magazine
"What It Is"
Gibbon Art Blog
International Herald Tribune (now part of the New York Times organization)
"Chardin's Austere Brilliance," article by Souren Melikian
PBS
"Chardin's World"
The London Evening Standard
"All in a day's work for Chardin", 2008 article by Brian Sewell
The New York Observer
"An Unforgettable Fish From Honest Chardin", article by Hilton Kramer
The Telegraph Newspaper, UK
Susannah Fiennes on Chardin's The Young Draughtsman
The Village Voice
"Amazing Grace", 2000 article by Jerry Saltz
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
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Chardin
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The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard
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Discoveries: Chardin: An Intimate Art
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