Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin painted "The Scullery Maid" in 1738. She is scouring a long-handled saucepan, but it's not what she is doing that makes this picture wonderful, it is where her ...

Masters of the immaculate include Bronzino, De La Tour, Ingres. Masters of the marred are Titian, Rembrandt, Chardin. Glass of Water and Coffee Pot is one of Chardin's late still lifes. Simplicity ...

Last week, an unassuming still life by 18th-century French artist Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin sold for €24.4 million ($26.8 million) at an auction in Paris, smashing presale expectations and ...

The Kimbell Art Museum’s yearslong quest to own a still-life painting by Jean Siméon Chardin has come to an end. The Cut Melon, a rare oval-shaped piece from the 18th-century French artist, has ...

Look closely at this 18th-century painting by Jean-Siméon Chardin. It is in the National Gallery of Art and it’s called “ The Little Schoolmistress.” I have always loved it.

An unknown buyer set a record for Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin when they paid €24.4 million ($26.8 million) for the still life The Basket of Wild Strawberries (1761) in March, only to have the ...

The London-based dealer Simon Dickinson has been cleared of negligence over the sale of La Bénédicité (saying grace, 1744) by the 18th-century French artist Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin.

Jean-Siméon Chardin's still life transformed the genre and would become an irresistible model for subsequent artists—including Manet, Cézanne, Matisse and Soutine—and a benchmark for the ...

The dispute centres on a version of Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin’s Le Benedicite. Amanda Feilding, Countess of Wemyss and March, leaving the Rolls building in central London, amid a trial over ...

The Kimbell Art Museum’s yearslong quest to own a still-life painting by Jean Siméon Chardin has come to an end. The Cut Melon, a rare oval-shaped piece from the 18th-century French artist, has ...

Countess sues art dealer after £1m family painting re-sold for millions more The dispute centres on a version of Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin’s Le Benedicite.