Return from Market Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin (1699-1779)
Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin – Return from Market
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Painter: Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin
Location: Louvre (Musée du Louvre), Paris.
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Created in 1739 The materials are canvas and oil, and the size is 47 by 38 cm. It is located in the Louvre, Paris, France. The French painter won great popularity with still lifes and scenes from the everyday life of the common people, executed with great care and great variety of color combinations. Even white was never homogeneous for him, which even Diderot admired, believing that Chardin literally transfers the very matter, air and light with the tip of his brush to the canvas. Another title of the painting - "peddler" - characterizes the occupation of the woman in the foreground.
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Created in 1739 The materials are canvas and oil, and the size is 47 by 38 cm. It is located in the Louvre, Paris, France.
The French painter won great popularity with still lifes and scenes from the everyday life of the common people, executed with great care and great variety of color combinations. Even white was never homogeneous for him, which even Diderot admired, believing that Chardin literally transfers the very matter, air and light with the tip of his brush to the canvas.
Another title of the painting - "peddler" - characterizes the occupation of the woman in the foreground. She has just come from the market stalls with large, crispy even by sight and sprinkled with flour bread, wrapped in cloth, poultry. She probably does not work in this house, because her clothes are very different from those of the maid in the distance on the left.
The peddler’s costume is detailed: the thin stripes of her petticoat match perfectly with the white top and cap and the flowing folds of her blue apron, and the pink stockings of her slightly frivolous-looking feet are laced with ribbons that hold up her sleeves and keep them from getting dirty. All three primary colors of her image (and by extension, the French flag) are gathered in a lovely shoulder scarf. The femininity is also emphasized by the ribbon with a medallion or dry perfume around her neck.
The painter spares no effort to trace the interior: color transitions and highlights, light and shade on the wooden cabinet, on the bubbling dark glass bottles, on the stable clay pot next to the metal tray, even on the fallen lid, the plastered walls and the copper side of the water tank in the next room. Thanks to the painter’s skill, the viewer easily understands also the texture of the surfaces of these objects, is transported into an ordinary day of the first half of the 18th century and feels that morning and a little fussy general atmosphere along with the faint aromas of the kitchen.
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