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Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin (1699 - 1779)
French painter, born 1699 in Paris. Assistant to Noël Nicolas Coypel around 1720 and shortly afterwards to Jean- Baptiste van Loo. In 1724 he became a member of the Guild of St. Luke and in 1728 was accepted by the Academy in Paris as a painter of animals and fruit. Although he was not a painter of history pictures, the most highly regarded genre in the Academy, he became its "Conseiller" in 1743 and its treasurer in 1755. As exhibition organizer, from 1761 Chardin was responsible for selecting paintings by the members of the Academy and for arranging and hanging them. In 1557 he moved into apartments in the Louvre. He died, almost blind, in Paris in 1779. |
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