Chardin : Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 7 September-22 November 1999 : Düsseldorf, Kunstmuseum im Ehrenhof, 5 December 1999-20 February 2000 : London, Royal Academy of Arts, 11 March-29 May 2000 : New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 27 June-3 September 2000 / [exhibition committee, Pierre Rosenberg ; assisted by Florence Bruyant ; translated from the French by Caroline Beamish].

"This book is the catalogue of an international exhibition of Chardin's work, timed to coincide with both the twentieth anniversary of the great 1979 Chardin exhibition and the tercentenary of the painter's birth. Beginning at the Grand Palais in Paris, the exhibition travels to the K...

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Main Author: Chardin, Jean Baptiste Siméon, 1699-1779.
Corporate Author: Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France)
Other Authors: Rosenberg, Pierre.
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published: London : New York : Royal Academy of Arts ; Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2000]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Preface / Pierre Rosenberg
  • Chronology / Florence Bruyant
  • Chardin: The Unknowing Subversive? / Pierre Rosenberg
  • Ceramics and Glass in Chardin's Paintings / Marie-Laure de Rochebrune
  • Chardin's Property and Sources of Income / Antoine Schnapper
  • Chardin Multiplied / Katie Scott
  • Anglo-Saxon Attitudes: Recent Writings on Chardin / Colin B. Bailey
  • Chardin and the Far Side of Illusion / Rene Demoris
  • Catalogue / Pierre Rosenberg
  • Chardin's Beginnings and His First Still-Lifes
  • Utensils and Household Objects, and First Commissions
  • Genre Scenes
  • Chardin's Return to Still-Life Painting
  • The Pastels.