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image of Soap Bubbles
Jean Siméon Chardin
French, 1699 - 1779
Soap Bubbles, probably 1733/1734
oil on canvas, 93 x 74.6 cm (36 5/8 x 29 3/8 in.)
Gift of Mrs. John W. Simpson
1942.5.1
From the Tour: 18th-Century France — Chardin and Portraiture
Object 1 of 11

Literature

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  • Goncourt, Edmond and Jules de. "Chardin." Gazette des Beaux-Arts. 1st ser., vol 15 (1863):524
  • Goncourt, Edmond and Jules de. "Chardin." Gazette des Beaux-Arts. 1st ser., vol 16 (1864):151
  • "Vente Laperlier." Chronique des Arts. no. 181 (21 April 1867):122
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  • Goncourt, Edmond and Jules de. L'Art du dix-huitième siècle. 2 vols. Paris, 1880: I: 120
  • Dilke, Emilia F.S., Lady. "Chardin et ses oeuvres à Potsdam et à Stockholm." Gazette des Beaux-Arts. 3rd ser., vol. 22 (September 1899):181
  • Dilke, Emilia F.S., Lady. French Painters of the XVIIIth Century. London, 1899:114-115
  • Dayot, Armand. J.-B. Siméon Chardin, avec un catalogue complete de l'oeuvre du maître par Jean Guiffrey. Paris, 1907[?]: 44,46, 60, 70; in catalogue: 28, 37, 54, 75, 90, 100
  • Dayot, Armand and Vaillat, Leandre. L'Oeuvre de J.-B.-S. Chardin et de J.-H. Fragonard. Paris, 1907: iv, pl. 12
  • Pascal, André and Gaucheron, Roger. Documents sur la vie et l'oeuvre de Chardin. Paris, 1931: 72
  • Wildenstein, Georges. Chardin. Paris, 1933: 68, 166-167, no. 134, repro.
  • Frankfurter, Alfred M. "The Sources of Modern Painting: A Concrete Exposition by the Boston Institute of Modern Art." Art N 37 (11 March 1939): 10, repro.
  • The Sources of Modern Painting. Exh. cat. Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1939:19, no. 2, repro.
  • Richardson, E.P. "Soap Bubbles by Chardin." Art Quarterly 5 (Autumn 1942):349, repro. 348
  • "Collectors Continue Enriching the Nation." Art Digest 16 (August 1942):6, repro.
  • "The Dutch Then: Still Life and Genre." Art News 45 (March 1946):51, repro.
  • Wildenstein and Company. French XVIII Century Paintings. New York, 1948: 4
  • Denvir, Bernard. Chardin, New York, 1950: repro. 17
  • Einstein, Lewis. "Looking at French Eighteenth Century Pictures in Washington." GBA. 6th ser., vol. 67, no. 1048-1049 (May-June 1956): 234, repro. 231
  • Wildenstein, Georges. Chardin. Zurich, 1963: no. 74, repro.
  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 317, repro.
  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 26
  • European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 19, repro.
  • Wildenstein, Georges. Chardin. Paris, 1969: no. 74, repro.
  • Stuffmann, Margret, in Keller, Harald, Die Kunst des 18. Jahrhunderts. Berlin, 1871:391, repro. pl. 370.
  • Held, Julius, and Posner, Donald. 17th and 18th Century Art. New York, 1971:317, repro.
  • Snoep-Reitsma, Ella. "Chardin and the Bourgeois Ideals of his Time." Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 24 (1973):217, repro.
  • Paulson, Ronald. Emblem and Expression: Meaning in English Art of the Eighteenth Century. London, 1975:106
  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: 325, repro.
  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 66, repro.
  • Brenninkmeyer-De Rooij, Beatrijs. "De schilderijengalerij van Prins Willem V op het Buitenhof te Den Haag (2)." Antiek (1976):156, repro. 146
  • King, Marian. Adventures in Art: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1978: 63, pl. 35.
  • Fried, Michaeil. Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot. Berkeley, 1980:46-53, repro. 51 fig. 29.
  • Rosenberg, Pierre. L'opera completa di Chardin. Milan, 1983: no. 97A, repro.
  • Rosenberg, Pierre. Chardin: New Thoughts. Kansas, 1983:53, 68.
  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 323, no. 427, color repro.
  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 85, repro.
  • Conisbee, Philip. Chardin. Oxford, 1986: 133-137, 140, repro. pl. 125.
  • Johnson, Dorothy. "Picturing Pedagogy: Education and the Child in the Paintings of Chardin." Eighteenth-Century Studies 24 no.1 (Fall, 1990): 47-68, repro. 58 fig. 4.
  • Hall, Nicholas H.J., ed. Colnaghi in America. New York, 1992: 22 [mentioned under fig. 22]
  • National Gallery of Art, Washington. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 168, repro.
  • Roland Michel, Marianne. Chardin. Paris, 1994: 33, 122, 126, 193, 197-198, 223 n. 13-15, 240, 242, color repro. 194.
  • Edizel, Gerar. "Jean-Siméon Chardin: Seeing, Playing, Forgetting, and the Practice of Modern Imitation." PhD. diss., Cornell University, 1995:16, 153-166, 190, repro. fig. 2.
  • Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History, New York, 1995:812, no. 19-83, repro.
  • Jollet, Etienne. Chardin: La vie silencieuse. Paris. 1995:26, color repro.
  • Douthwaite, Julia V. "Private Life In the Public Eye: Rousseau's Autobiography and Eighteenth-Century Painting." Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, no. 358 (1998):145, repro. fig. 2.

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