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The Silver Tureen  1730

by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin

In 1728 Chardin was admitted to the French Academy, and achieved immediate and lasting fame as a painter of still life. This picture is unusual in that it combines motifs from the kitchen and from elegant society. The covered silver tureen is an expensive vessel which he must have borrowed. Chardin paints the feathers of the bird and the coat of the hare with great subtlet...
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Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art