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ArtSeptember 2000 The splendid Chardin by Karen Wilkin On Chardin at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Every time I walked through the splendid Chardin exhibition at the
Metropolitan
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this summer, I was struck by how impossible it was to
imagine how this eighteenth-century master’s paintings looked to his
contemporaries. Not that there’s a lack of documentation. Quite the
contrary. The work of Jean-Siméon Chardin (1699–1779) was thoroughly discussed by the art critics of
his day, most famously by Denis Diderot, his friend and perhaps his most
illuminating commentator—certainly the best writer among them. The
critical literature that survives from Chardin’s lifetime, provoked by
his submissions to the Salons from 1737 until 1779
and his widely disseminated prints, contains everything from
adulatory poems and over-the-top rhapsodies to clear-eyed descriptions
of particular still lifes of musical instruments, baskets of fruit, a ...
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