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Vegetables for the Soup
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardinabout 1732
Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Indianapolis, United States
Details
- Title: Vegetables for the Soup
- Creator Lifespan: 1699 - 1779
- Creator Nationality: French
- Creator Gender: Male
- Date Created: about 1732
- Type: oil paintings
- Rights: James E. Roberts Fund
- External Link: http://www.imamuseum.org/mercury/load-artwork/85
- Medium: oil on canvas
- wall label: This is one of the numerous small paintings of ordinary household subjects done by Chardin in the early 1730s. He frequently made use of the same repertory of objects - a copper pot, skimmer, glazed clay pitcher, cabbage, carrots, cucumbers, turnips - in other compositions. There is a profound orderliness and harmony in these arrangements of utensils and vegetables and a sense of moral certitude in their rustic simplicity. Such values were prized by the rising middle class, who made up most of Chardin's patrons.
- measurements: 12 1/4 x 15 3/8 in.
- Artist: Chardin, Jean-Siméon
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