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image of The Attentive Nurse
Jean Siméon Chardin (artist)
French, 1699 - 1779
The Attentive Nurse, probably 1738
oil on canvas
Overall: 46.2 x 37 cm (18 3/16 x 14 9/16 in.) framed: 61.9 x 53.7 x 7.3 cm (24 3/8 x 21 1/8 x 2 7/8 in.)
Samuel H. Kress Collection
1952.5.37
Not on View
From the Tour: 18th-Century France — Chardin and Portraiture
Object 3 of 11
1929Osborn, Max. Die Kunst des Rokoko. Berlin, 1929: color pl. VII between 184 and 185, 611.
1951Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1945-1951. Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Suida. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1951: 226, no. 101, repro.
1956Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1956: 46, color repro.
1959Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 355, repro.
1960The National Gallery of Art and Its Collections. Foreword by Perry B. Cott and notes by Otto Stelzer. National Gallery of Art, Washington (undated, 1960s): 9, color repro. 15.
1963Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 212, repro.
1965Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 27
1968European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 19, repro.
1975European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 68, repro.
1977Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 313-314, fig. 279, as Nourishment for Convalescence (Les Aliments de la Convalescence).
1979Watson, Ross. National Gallery of Art. London, 1979: 83, pl. 70, color repro.
1983Rosenberg, Pierre. Chardin: New Thoughts. Kansas, 1983:16, 39, repro. pl. 1.
1983Rosenberg, Pierre. L'opera completa di Chardin. Milan, 1983: no. 125, repro. pl. XXXV
1983Veca, Alberto. Simposio: Cerimonie e Apparati. Bergamo, 1983:149, repro. pl. 115.
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 320, no. 422, color repro.
1985European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 86, repro.
1986Conisbee, Philip. Chardin. Oxford, 1986: 165, 169, 172, 175, 184, 195, repro. pl. 174, detail repro. pl. 169.
1986Mittler, Gene A. Art in Focus. Peoria, 1986:273, repro.
1991Démoris, René. Chardin, la chair et l'object. Paris, 1991:97, 126.
1994Roland Michel, Marianne. Chardin. Paris, 1994:160, 220-221, color repro. 223.
1995Edizel, Gerar. "Jean-Siméon Chardin:Seeing, Playing, Forgetting, and the Practice of Modern Imitation." PhD. diss., Cornell University, 1995:143-145. repro. 44.
1996Donahue, M. Patricia. Nursing: the Finest Art: An Illustrated History. St. Louis, 1996:repro. 21.
2005The Arts of France from François Ier to Napoléon Ier. A Centennial Celebration of Wildenstein's Presence in New York. Exh. cat. Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York, 2005: 201, fig. 73a (not in the exhibition).

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