Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin

after 1771

Juste Chevillet after Jean Siméon Chardin

Associated Names
Juste Chevillet

Artist/publisher, French, 1729 - 1790

Jean Siméon Chardin

Artist After, French, 1699 - 1779

The image is a portrait of a person with defined facial features and a gentle expression. They wear spectacles and a fabric headpiece, and are dressed in a coat with a scarf or cravat. The background is plain and dark, with a decorative border featuring ornate designs and an inscription with the name "Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin" and other text below the portrait.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 31.8 × 22.2 cm (12 1/2 × 8 3/4 in.)
    plate: 34 × 24.3 cm (13 3/8 × 9 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 36.5 × 26.5 cm (14 3/8 × 10 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.2776


Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1952

  • Etchings and Other Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, VA, 1952-1953, no cat.

Inscriptions

recto: in plate, in image, below center: JEAN BAPTISTE SIMEON CHARDIN / Peintre du Roi Conseiller et Ancien Tresorier / de l'Academie Royale de Peinture et Sculpture / De l'Acad. Roy. des Sciences elles Lettres et Arts de Rouen / Né le 2 Novembre 1699; in plate, below image, at left: Peint par lui même en 1771; in plate, below image, at center: A Paris chez Chevillet Graveur rue des Maçons Maison de Mr. Freville; in plate, below image, at right: Gravé par Chevillet Graveur de leur Maj. Imp et Royale; verso: at center in brown ink: [unidentified name or paraph]; at lower left in graphite in later hand: Boch 2; at lower right in graphite in later hand: 1301 / RRR [?] 800

Markings

recto: none; verso: Lessing J. Rosenwald and National Gallery of Art

Watermarks

partial Auvergne watermark to be identified

Wikidata ID

Q64959810

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