Chardin: The Kitchen Maid

Jean Siméon Chardin, The Kitchen Maid
oil on canvas, 1738
Washington DC National Gallery of Art
(http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/timage_f?object=41650&image=6789&c=)
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We stop in front of a Chardin as if by instinct, like a traveler weary of the road choosing, almost without realizing, a place that offers a grassy seat, silence, water and cool shade.

(Diderot, Salon of 1767)

• The Little Schoolmistress
• The Attentive Nurse
• The Silver Beaker (Austen, Chekhov, Ozu, Hopper, Chardin)

(Washington DC National Gallery of Art)

(Diderot)

(Old Masters)