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Soap Bubbles  1734

by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin

Jean–Siméon Chardin was celebrated by his contemporaries for his still lifes painted with thick strokes and great attention to detail. In this composition a boy poised on a window sill blows a soap bubble. Both he and the younger boy next to him are fully absorbed in the activity; however, for the 18th–century viewer, bubbles were not only a form of entertainment, but also...
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Courtesy of National Gallery of Art, Washington