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diff --git a/41886-8.txt b/41886-0.txt index eff25fa..4ad9449 100644 --- a/41886-8.txt +++ b/41886-0.txt @@ -1,38 +1,4 @@ -The Project Gutenberg EBook of Chardin, by Paul G. Konody - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: Chardin - -Author: Paul G. Konody - -Editor: T. Leman Hare - -Release Date: January 20, 2013 [EBook #41886] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHARDIN *** - - - - -Produced by sp1nd, Charlie Howard, and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive) - - - - - - +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 41886 *** MASTERPIECES IN COLOUR @@ -74,14 +40,14 @@ IN THE SAME SERIES WHISTLER. T. MARTIN WOOD. HOLBEIN. S. L. BENSUSAN. BURNE-JONES. A. LYS BALDRY. - VIGÉE LE BRUN. C. HALDANE MACFALL. + VIGÉE LE BRUN. C. HALDANE MACFALL. J. F. MILLET. PERCY M. TURNER. CHARDIN. PAUL G. KONODY. _In Preparation_ MEMLINC. W. H. JAMES WEALE. - ALBERT DÜRER. HERBERT FURST. + ALBERT DÃœRER. HERBERT FURST. FRAGONARD. C. HALDANE MACFALL. CONSTABLE. C. LEWIS HIND. RAEBURN. JAMES L. CAW. @@ -151,16 +117,16 @@ LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS III. L'Enfant au Toton, or the Child with the Top 24 In the Louvre - IV. Le Bénédicité, or Grace before Meat 34 + IV. Le Bénédicité, or Grace before Meat 34 In the Hermitage Collection at St. Petersburg V. La Gouvernante, or Mother and Son 40 In the Collection of Prince Liechtenstein in Vienna - VI. La Mère Laborieuse 50 + VI. La Mère Laborieuse 50 In the Stockholm Museum - VII. Le Panneau de Pêches, or the Basket of Peaches 60 + VII. Le Panneau de Pêches, or the Basket of Peaches 60 In the Louvre VIII. La Pourvoyeuse 70 @@ -175,7 +141,7 @@ LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS I -Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin occupies a curious position among the +Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin occupies a curious position among the artists of his time and country. His art which, neglected and despised for many decades after his death, is now admitted by those best competent to judge to be supreme as regards technical excellence, and, @@ -200,7 +166,7 @@ beginnings closely connected with the art of the North, and not with that of Italy. The style of the early French miniaturists of the Burgundian School, of Fouquet and of Clouet, is the style of the North; their art is interwoven with the art of Flanders. When in the time of -François I. the School of Fontainebleau, headed by Primaticcio and +François I. the School of Fontainebleau, headed by Primaticcio and Rosso, promulgated the gospel that artistic salvation could only be found in the emulation of Raphael and the masters of the late Italian Renaissance, and of the Bolognese eclectics; when finally degenerated @@ -220,7 +186,7 @@ half a century earlier, through the brothers Le Nain, who drew their subjects and inspiration from the North and their sombre colour from Spain; and afterwards through Chardin, whose style was so closely akin to that of the Flemings that, when he first submitted some pieces of -still-life to the members of the Academy, Largillière himself took them +still-life to the members of the Academy, Largillière himself took them to be the work of some excellent unknown Flemish painter. What are the qualities that raise Chardin's art so high above the showy @@ -322,7 +288,7 @@ by Chardin are known, and these few proclaim the painter rather than the draughtsman. Still, having pointed out the gulf that divides our master from the -still-life painters of the _grand siècle_, it is only right to add that +still-life painters of the _grand siècle_, it is only right to add that he did not burst upon the world as an isolated phenomenon, and that painters like Desportes and Oudry form the bridge from Monnoyer, the best known of the French seventeenth-century compilers of showy @@ -335,14 +301,14 @@ his son-in-law Belin de Fontenay did not depart from his artificial manner. But with Oudry, in spite of much that is still traditional in his art, we arrive already at a new conception of still-life painting. In a paper read by this artist to the Academy he relates how, in his -student days, when asked by Largillière to paint some flowers, he placed +student days, when asked by Largillière to paint some flowers, he placed a carefully chosen, gaily coloured bouquet in a vase, when his master stopped him and said: "I have set you this task to train you for colour. Do you think the choice you have made will do for the purpose? Get a bunch of flowers all white." Oudry did as he was bid, and was then told to observe that the flowers are brown on the shadow side, that on a light ground they appear in half tones, and that the whitest of them are -darker than absolute white. Largillière then pointed out to him the +darker than absolute white. Largillière then pointed out to him the action of reflections, and made him paint by the side of the flowers various white objects of different value for comparison. Oudry was not a little surprised at discovering that the flowers consisted of an @@ -360,7 +326,7 @@ Auguste Gabriel Godefroy, son of the jeweller Godefroy, and is the companion picture to the "Young Man with the Violin," which represents the child's elder brother Charles. The two pictures were bought in 1907 for the Louvre, at the high price of 350,000 francs. "L'Enfant au Toton" -was first exhibited at the Salon of 1738, and was engraved by Lépicié in +was first exhibited at the Salon of 1738, and was engraved by Lépicié in 1742. A replica of the picture was in the collection of the late M. Groult. It is one of Chardin's most delightful presentments of innocent childish amusement, and illustrates at the same time the master's @@ -400,7 +366,7 @@ sentimental--in this respect, as well as in the solidity of his technique, and in his scientific search for colour values and atmosphere, he is vastly superior to Greuze, whose genre scenes are never free from literary flavour and from a certain kind of affectation. -Nor does Chardin ever fancy himself in the rôle of the moralist like our +Nor does Chardin ever fancy himself in the rôle of the moralist like our own Hogarth, with whom he has otherwise so much in common. He looks upon his simple fellow-creatures with a sympathetic eye, watching them in the pursuit of their daily avocation, the women conscientiously following @@ -418,11 +384,11 @@ introduce into the art of genre painting in France the sense of intimacy, the homogeneous vision, the atmosphere of reality which we find in such masterpieces as the "Grace before Meat," "The Reading Lesson," "The Governess," "The Convalescent's Meal," "The Card Castle," -the "Récureuse," the "Pourvoyeuse," and the famous "Child with the Top," +the "Récureuse," the "Pourvoyeuse," and the famous "Child with the Top," which, after having changed hands in 1845, at the time when Chardin was -held in slight esteem, for less than £25, was recently bought for the +held in slight esteem, for less than £25, was recently bought for the Louvre, together with the companion portrait of Charles Godefroy, "The -Young Man with the Violin," for the enormous price of £14,000. +Young Man with the Violin," for the enormous price of £14,000. In the case of each of these pictures the first thing that strikes your attention is the complete absorption of the personages in their @@ -477,11 +443,11 @@ knew how to fill his canvases with a luscious warm atmosphere, and to blend his tones in the mellowest of harmonies! "His colour is not true enough," runs another of Mariette's comments. -[Illustration: PLATE IV.--LE BÉNÉDICITÉ (GRACE BEFORE MEAT) +[Illustration: PLATE IV.--LE BÉNÉDICITÉ (GRACE BEFORE MEAT) (In the Louvre) -"Le Bénédicité," or "Grace before Meat," is perhaps the most popular and +"Le Bénédicité," or "Grace before Meat," is perhaps the most popular and best known of all Chardin's domestic genre pieces. It combines the highest technical and artistic qualities with a touching simplicity of sentiment that must endear it even to those who cannot appreciate its @@ -490,7 +456,7 @@ the version in the Hermitage Collection at St. Petersburg. The Louvre owns two examples--one from the collection of Louis XV., another from the La Caze Collection. This latter version appeared three times in the Paris sale-rooms, the last time in 1876, when it realised the sum of -£20! Another authentic replica is in the Marcille Collection, and yet +£20! Another authentic replica is in the Marcille Collection, and yet another at Stockholm.] Let us now listen to Diderot, though in fairness it should be stated @@ -515,7 +481,7 @@ confused and sparkling accumulation of pasty and rich colours." Diderot is borne out by Bachaumont who at the same period writes: "His method is irregular. He places his colours one after the other, almost without mixing, so that his work bears a certain resemblance to -mosaic, or _point carré_ needlework." This description, given by two +mosaic, or _point carré_ needlework." This description, given by two independent contemporaries, almost suggests the technique of the modern impressionists and pointillists; and if the present appearance of Chardin's paintings scarcely tallies with Diderot's and Bachaumont's @@ -588,14 +554,14 @@ the many Chardin pictures in the collection of Prince Liechtenstein in Vienna. Observe the perfectly natural attitude of the woman and the child, in which there is not the slightest hint of posing for the artist. Like all Chardin's genre pictures, it is, as it were, a glimpse -of real life. This picture and its companion "La Mère Laborieuse" +of real life. This picture and its companion "La Mère Laborieuse" figured at the sale of Chardin's works after his death, when his art received such scant appreciation that the pair only realised 30 livres 4 sous!] The man's character--and more than that, his _milieu_--are expressed in no uncertain fashion in his three auto-portraits, two of which are at -the Louvre, and one in the Collection of M. Léon Michel-Lévy. A good, +the Louvre, and one in the Collection of M. Léon Michel-Lévy. A good, kind-hearted, simple-minded man he appears in these pastel portraits, which all date from the last years of his life, a man incapable of wickedness or meanness, and endowed with a keen sense of humour that @@ -612,7 +578,7 @@ degree. The features are the same, and the expression is identical--the same keen, penetrating eyes, which even in his declining years have lost none of their searching intelligence, even though they have to be aided by round horn-rimmed spectacles; the same revelation of a lovable -nature, even though in M. Michel-Lévy's version worry and suffering have +nature, even though in M. Michel-Lévy's version worry and suffering have left their traces on the features. He is the embodiment of decent middle-class respectability. Decency and a high sense of honour marked every act of his life, and decency had to be kept up in external @@ -658,7 +624,7 @@ Chardin had no artistic progeny to carry on his tradition, partly, perhaps, because he failed as a teacher, more probably because the Revolution and the Empire were close at hand when he died, and because the social upheavals led to new ideals and to an art that was based on -an altogether different æsthetic code. The star of David rose when +an altogether different æsthetic code. The star of David rose when Chardin's gave its last flickers; and Chardin himself was among the commissioners who signed on the 10th of January 1778 the highly laudatory report on David's large battle sketch sent to Paris by the @@ -675,7 +641,7 @@ name is honoured and revered in every modern painter's studio. III -Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin was born in Paris on November 2, 1699, the +Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin was born in Paris on November 2, 1699, the second son of Jean Chardin, cabinetmaker, or to be more strict, billiard-table maker, a hard-working man who rose to be syndic of his corporation, but who, the father of a family of five, was fortunately @@ -689,11 +655,11 @@ Chardin from allegorical and mythological clap-trap, and made him the great painter of the visible world of his time. Though Jean Chardin wanted his son to take up his own profession, he was quick in recognising and encouraging the boy's early talent, and finally made him -enter the Atelier of Pierre Jacques Cazes where Siméon received his +enter the Atelier of Pierre Jacques Cazes where Siméon received his first systematic training. Cazes was a capable enough painter in the traditional grand manner of Le Brun, which had been taught to him by Bon Boullogne. He had taken the Prix de Rome, and issued victorious from -several other competitions, but, like Rigaud and Largillière and several +several other competitions, but, like Rigaud and Largillière and several other distinguished painters of the period, never availed himself of the privilege entailed by the award of the Prix de Rome. Indeed, he was not a little proud of this fact, as he showed by his reply to Crozat who @@ -713,20 +679,20 @@ subjects, and who was, moreover, deeply interested in the life that came under his personal observation. The tasks set to him by Cazes must have appeared to Chardin like the drudgery of acquiring proficiency in a hieroglyphic language that conveyed no definite meaning to him. Still, -Chardin made such progress under his first master that Noël Nicolas +Chardin made such progress under his first master that Noël Nicolas Coypel engaged him as assistant to paint the details in some decorative over-door panels representing the Seasons and the Pleasures of the Chase. -[Illustration: PLATE VI.--LA MÈRE LABORIEUSE +[Illustration: PLATE VI.--LA MÈRE LABORIEUSE (In the Stockholm Museum) -"La Mère Laborieuse," which is the companion picture to "La +"La Mère Laborieuse," which is the companion picture to "La Gouvernante," was first exhibited at the Salon of 1745, where it attracted the attention of Count Tessin, who immediately commissioned the replica which is now at the Stockholm Museum. The picture was -engraved by Lépicié in the same year in which it was first exhibited.] +engraved by Lépicié in the same year in which it was first exhibited.] In Coypel Chardin found a master of very different calibre--a teacher after his own heart. The systematised knowledge of the principles @@ -794,7 +760,7 @@ jury, held annually in the Place Dauphine on Corpus Christi day, between annual Salon at the Louvre, which was only open to the works of the members of the Academy, this _Exposition de la Jeunesse_ was the only opportunity given to artists for submitting their works to the public. -At the time when Chardin made his début at this picture fair, the annual +At the time when Chardin made his début at this picture fair, the annual Academy Salon instituted by Louis XIV. had been abandoned for some years, so that even the members of the Academy were driven to the Place Dauphine in order to keep in touch with the public. In the contemporary @@ -828,22 +794,22 @@ Louvre, retired to an adjoining apartment, where he awaited, not without serious misgivings, the result of his bold venture. His fears proved to be unfounded. A contemporary of Chardin's has left -an amusing account of what befell our timid artist. M. de Largillière +an amusing account of what befell our timid artist. M. de Largillière entered the first room and carefully examined the pictures placed there by Chardin. Then he passed into the next room to speak to the candidate. "You have here some very fine pictures which are surely the work of some good Flemish painter--an excellent school for colour, this Flemish school. Now let us see your works." "Sir, you have just seen them." "What! these were your pictures?" "Yes, sir." "Then," said -Largillière, "present yourself, my friend, present yourself." Cazes, +Largillière, "present yourself, my friend, present yourself." Cazes, Chardin's old master, likewise fell into the innocent trap, and was equally complimentary, without suspecting the authorship of the exposed pictures. In fact, he undertook to stand as his pupil's sponsor. When Louis de Boullogne, Director of the Academy and painter to the king, arrived, Chardin informed him that the exhibited pictures were painted by him, and that the Academy might dispose of those which were approved -of. "He is not yet 'confirmed' (_agréé_) and he talks already of being -'received' (_reçu_)![2] However," he added, "you have done well to +of. "He is not yet 'confirmed' (_agréé_) and he talks already of being +'received' (_reçu_)![2] However," he added, "you have done well to mention it." He reported the proposal, which was immediately accepted. The ballot resulted in Chardin being at the same time, "confirmed" and "received." On Sept. 25, 1728, he was sworn in, and @@ -852,11 +818,11 @@ and in consideration of his impecunious condition, his entrance fee was reduced to 100 livres. "The Buffet" and a "Kitchen" piece were accepted as "diploma pictures." -[Illustration: PLATE VII.--LE PANNEAU DE PÊCHES +[Illustration: PLATE VII.--LE PANNEAU DE PÊCHES (In the Louvre) -"Le Panneau de Pêches," (The Basket of Peaches) is a magnificent +"Le Panneau de Pêches," (The Basket of Peaches) is a magnificent instance of Chardin's extraordinary skill in the rendering of textures and substances. Note the perfect truth of all the colour-values, the play of light and shade and reflections, such as the opening up of the @@ -876,12 +842,12 @@ he offered to exchange it for a pretty waistcoat. When the king's sister admired one of his pastel portraits and asked the price, he immediately begged her to accept it "as a token of gratitude for her interest in his work." Admirably tactful is the form in which Chardin gives practical -expression to his gratitude for M. de Vandières' successful efforts at -procuring him a pension from the king. Through Lépicié, the secretary of -the Academy, he begs Vandières to accept the dedication of an engraving +expression to his gratitude for M. de Vandières' successful efforts at +procuring him a pension from the king. Through Lépicié, the secretary of +the Academy, he begs Vandières to accept the dedication of an engraving after his "Lady with a Bird-organ"; and asks permission to state on the margin _that the original painting is in the Collection of M. de -Vandières_. The request was granted. +Vandières_. The request was granted. Small wonder, then, if in spite of the modesty of his personal requirements Chardin, even after his election to the Academy, had to @@ -890,7 +856,7 @@ Sainctar, whom he had met at a dance some years before, and who during the period of waiting had lost her health, her parents, and her modest fortune, and had to go to live with her guardian. Chardin's father, who had warmly approved of his son's engagement, now objected to the -marriage, but nothing could deter Siméon from his honourable purpose, +marriage, but nothing could deter Siméon from his honourable purpose, and the marriage took place at St. Sulpice on February 1, 1731. He took his wife to his parents' house at the corner of the Rue Princesse, where he had been living before his marriage, and before the end of @@ -907,7 +873,7 @@ classics. He then had him prepared at one of the Academy ateliers for competing for the Prix de Rome. No doubt owing to his father's then rather powerful influence, Pierre Chardin gained the coveted prize in 1754, and after having passed his three years' probation at the recently -established _École des élèves protégés_, which he had entered with the +established _École des élèves protégés_, which he had entered with the second batch of pupils by whom the first successful "Romans" were replaced, he set out for Rome in October 1757. But Pierre, discouraged perhaps from his earliest attempts by the perfection of his father's art @@ -924,13 +890,13 @@ French ambassador, the Marquis de Paulmy, and was never heard of since. It was said that he had found his death in the waters of a Venetian Canal. -But to return to Siméon Chardin--we find him again among the exhibitors +But to return to Siméon Chardin--we find him again among the exhibitors of the Place Dauphine in 1732, with some pieces of still-life, two large decorative panels of musical trophies, and a wonderfully realistic painting in imitation of a bronze bas-relief after a terra-cotta of Duquesnoy. These imitation reliefs were then much in vogue for over-doors and wall decorations in the houses of the great, as, for -instance, in the Palace of Compiègne. Two authentic pieces of the kind, +instance, in the Palace of Compiègne. Two authentic pieces of the kind, executed in grisaille, are in the Collection of Dr. Tuffier. The one of the 1732 exhibition was bought by Van Loo for 200 livres, and is now in the Marcille Collection. According to contemporary criticism the @@ -939,7 +905,7 @@ illusion "which touch alone can destroy." About this time Chardin's still-life period comes to a close, and we find him henceforth devoting the best of his power to the domestic genre -"à la Teniers" (as it was dubbed by his own patrons and contemporaries), +"à la Teniers" (as it was dubbed by his own patrons and contemporaries), though even in later years still-life pieces continue to figure now and then among his Salon exhibits. His first triumphs in the new field of action were scored in 1734, when his sixteen contributions to the @@ -1013,11 +979,11 @@ a Letter," which he had already shown at the Jeunesse exhibition in 1734. Six pictures followed in the next year, including the "Governess," the "Pourvoyeuse" (now in the Louvre), and the "Cup of Tea"; and in 1740 his popularity reached its zenith with the exhibition of his masterpiece -"Grace before Meat" (_le Bénédicité_), in addition to which he showed +"Grace before Meat" (_le Bénédicité_), in addition to which he showed the two _singeries_--"The Monkey Painter" and "The Monkey Antiquary" (now in the Louvre)--even Chardin could not hold out against the bad taste which applauded this stupid invention of the Netherlanders--and -several other domestic genre pieces. A replica of the Bénédicité was +several other domestic genre pieces. A replica of the Bénédicité was commissioned by Count Tessin for the King of Sweden, and is now at the Stockholm Museum. @@ -1033,7 +999,7 @@ for new pictures and replicas, which he continued to paint at starvation rates, had no time to devote to the bringing up of his son, which was perhaps one of the reasons which induced him to marry, in the year following his mother's death, a musketeer's widow, of thirty-seven, -Françoise Marguerite Pouget, a worthy woman of no particular personal +Françoise Marguerite Pouget, a worthy woman of no particular personal charm, to judge from the portrait left by the master's chalks, but an excellent housekeeper who managed to bring a certain degree of order into her husband's affairs, and proved to be of no little assistance to @@ -1045,7 +1011,7 @@ from 1744, the year of his marriage, when he transferred his quarters to his wife's house in the Rue Princesse, until 1774, when his affairs really took a turn for the bad, he enjoyed the ownership of a house which he was then able to sell for 18,000 livres, a by no means paltry -amount for these days. Moreover, in 1752, Lépicié's endeavours resulted +amount for these days. Moreover, in 1752, Lépicié's endeavours resulted in the grant of a pension of 500 livres by the king, which, according to the petitioner's own words, was sufficient to secure Chardin's comfort. True enough, when the artist died in 1779, his widow applied for relief @@ -1079,7 +1045,7 @@ financial stress, the Academicians' pensions were frequently kept in arrear, and for years Royal support was withheld. Matters reached a climax in 1772, when the Academy found itself in such straits, that the question of dissolving the institution had to be seriously considered. -Chardin's appeal to Marigny, and through him to the Abbé Terray, +Chardin's appeal to Marigny, and through him to the Abbé Terray, Comptroller-General of Finances, however, led to the desired result, and the much needed support was granted. @@ -1090,10 +1056,10 @@ have contributed considerably to the ageing master's peace of mind. In his wonted slow manner he continued to paint still-life, and received several important commissions for the decoration of Royal and other residences. Thus, in 1764, his friend Cochin procured for him, through -Marigny, a commission for some over-doors for the Château of Choisy. +Marigny, a commission for some over-doors for the Château of Choisy. They depicted the attributes of Science, Art, and Music, and were exhibited in the Salon of 1765. A similar order for two over-doors in -the music-room of the Château of Bellevue--the instruments of civil and +the music-room of the Château of Bellevue--the instruments of civil and of military music--followed in the next year. The payment for the five, which was delayed until 1771, amounted to 5000 livres. @@ -1114,7 +1080,7 @@ buried at St. Germain-l'Auxerrois, in the parish of the Louvre. With him died the art of the French eighteenth century. A kind fate had saved him from the misfortune that fell to the share of his contemporaries Fragonard and Greuze, who outlived him by many years, but who also -outlived the _ancien régime_ and died in poverty and neglect and misery. +outlived the _ancien régime_ and died in poverty and neglect and misery. The plates are printed by BEMROSE & SONS, LTD., London and Derby @@ -1152,361 +1118,4 @@ Table of Contents added by Transcriber. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Chardin, by Paul G. 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MILLET.</td> @@ -405,7 +365,7 @@ higher-quality format.</p> <td class="tdl">MEMLINC.</td> <td class="tdl nopadrt"><span class="smcap">W. H. James Weale.</span></td></tr> <tr> - <td class="tdl">ALBERT DÜRER.</td> + <td class="tdl">ALBERT DÃœRER.</td> <td class="tdl nopadrt"><span class="smcap">Herbert Furst.</span></td></tr> <tr> <td class="tdl">FRAGONARD.</td> @@ -533,7 +493,7 @@ REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="tdn">IV.</td> - <td class="tdl"><a href="#PLATE_IV">Le Bénédicité, or Grace before Meat</a></td> + <td class="tdl"><a href="#PLATE_IV">Le Bénédicité, or Grace before Meat</a></td> <td class="tdr">34</td></tr> <tr> <td class="tdn"> </td> @@ -551,7 +511,7 @@ REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="tdn">VI.</td> - <td class="tdl"><a href="#PLATE_VI">La Mère Laborieuse </a></td> + <td class="tdl"><a href="#PLATE_VI">La Mère Laborieuse </a></td> <td class="tdr">50</td></tr> <tr> <td class="tdn"> </td> @@ -560,7 +520,7 @@ REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td class="tdn">VII.</td> - <td class="tdl"><a href="#PLATE_VII">Le Panneau de Pêches, or the Basket of Peaches</a></td> + <td class="tdl"><a href="#PLATE_VII">Le Panneau de Pêches, or the Basket of Peaches</a></td> <td class="tdr">60</td></tr> <tr> <td class="tdn"> </td> @@ -587,7 +547,7 @@ REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR <h2><a name="I" id="I">I</a></h2> -<p class="in0"><span class="dropcap">J</span><span class="dropleftmin">EAN-BAPTISTE SIMÉON CHARDIN</span> +<p class="in0"><span class="dropcap">J</span><span class="dropleftmin">EAN-BAPTISTE SIMÉON CHARDIN</span> occupies a curious position among the artists of his time and country. His art which, neglected and despised for many @@ -628,7 +588,7 @@ The style of the early French miniaturists of the Burgundian School, of Fouquet and of Clouet, is the style of the North; their art is interwoven with the art of Flanders. -When in the time of François I. the School +When in the time of François I. the School of Fontainebleau, headed by Primaticcio and Rosso, promulgated the gospel that artistic salvation could only be found in the @@ -662,7 +622,7 @@ afterwards through Chardin, whose style was so closely akin to that of the Flemings that, when he first submitted some pieces of still-life to the members of the Academy, -Largillière himself took them to be the +Largillière himself took them to be the work of some excellent unknown Flemish painter.</p> @@ -821,7 +781,7 @@ the painter rather than the draughtsman.</p> <p>Still, having pointed out the gulf that divides our master from the still-life -painters of the <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">grand siècle</i>, it is only +painters of the <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">grand siècle</i>, it is only right to add that he did not burst upon the world as an isolated phenomenon, and that painters like Desportes and Oudry @@ -843,7 +803,7 @@ traditional in his art, we arrive already at a new conception of still-life painting. In a paper read by this artist to the Academy he relates how, in his student days, when -asked by Largillière to paint some flowers, +asked by Largillière to paint some flowers, he placed a carefully chosen, gaily coloured bouquet in a vase, when his master stopped him and said: "I have set you this task @@ -855,7 +815,7 @@ told to observe that the flowers are brown on the shadow side, that on a light ground they appear in half tones, and that the whitest of them are darker than absolute -white. Largillière then pointed out to him +white. Largillière then pointed out to him the action of reflections, and made him paint by the side of the flowers various<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[22]</a></span> white objects of different value for comparison. @@ -880,7 +840,7 @@ companion picture to the "Young Man with the Violin," which represents the child's elder brother Charles. The two pictures were bought in 1907 for the Louvre, at the high price of 350,000 francs. "L'Enfant au Toton" was first exhibited at the Salon of 1738, and -was engraved by Lépicié in 1742. A replica of the picture was in +was engraved by Lépicié in 1742. A replica of the picture was in the collection of the late M. Groult. It is one of Chardin's most delightful presentments of innocent childish amusement, and illustrates at the same time the master's supreme skill in the painting of @@ -944,7 +904,7 @@ search for colour values and atmosphere, he is vastly superior to Greuze, whose genre scenes are never free from literary flavour and from a certain kind of affectation. Nor -does Chardin ever fancy himself in the rôle +does Chardin ever fancy himself in the rôle of the moralist like our own Hogarth, with whom he has otherwise so much in common. He looks upon his simple fellow-creatures @@ -974,15 +934,15 @@ reality which we find in such masterpieces as the "Grace before Meat," "The Reading Lesson," "The Governess," "The Convalescent's Meal," "The Card Castle," the -"Récureuse," the "Pourvoyeuse," and the +"Récureuse," the "Pourvoyeuse," and the famous "Child with the Top," which, after<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[28]</a></span> having changed hands in 1845, at the time when Chardin was held in slight esteem, -for less than £25, was recently bought for +for less than £25, was recently bought for the Louvre, together with the companion portrait of Charles Godefroy, "The Young Man with the Violin," for the enormous -price of £14,000.</p> +price of £14,000.</p> <p>In the case of each of these pictures the first thing that strikes your attention @@ -1070,11 +1030,11 @@ his tones in the mellowest of harmonies! of Mariette's comments.</p> <div class="figcenter"> -<div class="caption p4" id="PLATE_IV">PLATE IV.—LE BÉNÉDICITÉ (GRACE BEFORE MEAT)<br /> +<div class="caption p4" id="PLATE_IV">PLATE IV.—LE BÉNÉDICITÉ (GRACE BEFORE MEAT)<br /> <p class="in0 center padhalf">(In the Louvre)</p> -<p>"Le Bénédicité," or "Grace before Meat," is perhaps the most +<p>"Le Bénédicité," or "Grace before Meat," is perhaps the most popular and best known of all Chardin's domestic genre pieces. It combines the highest technical and artistic qualities with a touching simplicity of sentiment that must endear it even to those who cannot @@ -1083,7 +1043,7 @@ original is probably the version in the Hermitage Collection at St. Petersburg. The Louvre owns two examples—one from the collection of Louis XV., another from the La Caze Collection. This latter version appeared three times in the Paris sale-rooms, the last -time in 1876, when it realised the sum of £20! Another authentic +time in 1876, when it realised the sum of £20! Another authentic replica is in the Marcille Collection, and yet another at Stockholm.</p></div> <a href="images/i_036l.jpg"> <img src="images/i_036.jpg" width="395" height="500" alt="" /></a> @@ -1126,7 +1086,7 @@ who at the same period writes: "His method is irregular. He places his colours one after the other, almost without mixing, so that his work bears a certain resemblance -to mosaic, or <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">point carré</i> needlework." +to mosaic, or <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">point carré</i> needlework." This description, given by two independent contemporaries, almost suggests the technique of the modern impressionists and @@ -1235,7 +1195,7 @@ Liechtenstein in Vienna. Observe the perfectly natural attitude of the woman and the child, in which there is not the slightest hint of posing for the artist. Like all Chardin's genre pictures, it is, as it were, a glimpse of real life. This picture and its companion "La -Mère Laborieuse" figured at the sale of Chardin's works after his +Mère Laborieuse" figured at the sale of Chardin's works after his death, when his art received such scant appreciation that the pair only realised 30 livres 4 sous!</p></div> <a href="images/i_043l.jpg"> @@ -1246,7 +1206,7 @@ only realised 30 livres 4 sous!</p></div> that, his <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">milieu</i>—are expressed in no uncertain fashion in his three auto-portraits, two of which are at the Louvre, and one -in the Collection of M. Léon Michel-Lévy. +in the Collection of M. Léon Michel-Lévy. A good, kind-hearted, simple-minded man he appears in these pastel portraits, which all date from the last years of his life, a @@ -1274,7 +1234,7 @@ years have lost none of their searching intelligence, even though they have to be aided by round horn-rimmed spectacles; the same revelation of a lovable nature, -even though in M. Michel-Lévy's version +even though in M. Michel-Lévy's version worry and suffering have left their traces on the features. He is the embodiment of decent middle-class respectability. Decency @@ -1350,7 +1310,7 @@ the Revolution and the Empire were close at hand when he died, and because the social upheavals led to new ideals and to an art that was based on an altogether -different æsthetic code. The star of David +different æsthetic code. The star of David rose when Chardin's gave its last flickers; and Chardin himself was among the commissioners who signed on the 10th of @@ -1371,7 +1331,7 @@ every modern painter's studio.</p> <h2><a name="III" id="III">III</a></h2> -<p>Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin was born +<p>Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin was born in Paris on November 2, 1699, the second son of Jean Chardin, cabinetmaker, or to be more strict, billiard-table maker, a hard-working @@ -1395,13 +1355,13 @@ take up his own profession, he was quick in recognising and encouraging the boy's early talent, and finally made him enter the Atelier of Pierre Jacques Cazes where -Siméon received his first systematic training. +Siméon received his first systematic training. Cazes was a capable enough painter in the traditional grand manner of Le Brun, which had been taught to him by Bon Boullogne. He had taken the Prix de Rome, and issued victorious from several other competitions, -but, like Rigaud and Largillière and several +but, like Rigaud and Largillière and several other distinguished painters of the period, never availed himself of the privilege entailed by the award of the Prix de Rome. Indeed, @@ -1434,22 +1394,22 @@ to Chardin like the drudgery of acquiring proficiency in a hieroglyphic language that conveyed no definite meaning to him. Still, Chardin made such progress under his first -master that Noël Nicolas Coypel engaged +master that Noël Nicolas Coypel engaged <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[50]</a></span>him as assistant to paint the details in some decorative over-door panels representing the Seasons and the Pleasures of the Chase.</p> <div class="figcenter"> -<div class="caption p4" id="PLATE_VI">PLATE VI.—LA MÈRE LABORIEUSE<br /> +<div class="caption p4" id="PLATE_VI">PLATE VI.—LA MÈRE LABORIEUSE<br /> <p class="in0 center padhalf">(In the Stockholm Museum)</p> -<p>"La Mère Laborieuse," which is the companion picture to "La +<p>"La Mère Laborieuse," which is the companion picture to "La Gouvernante," was first exhibited at the Salon of 1745, where it attracted the attention of Count Tessin, who immediately commissioned the replica which is now at the Stockholm Museum. The -picture was engraved by Lépicié in the same year in which it was +picture was engraved by Lépicié in the same year in which it was first exhibited.</p></div> <a href="images/i_054l.jpg"> <img src="images/i_054.jpg" width="395" height="500" alt="" /></a> @@ -1563,7 +1523,7 @@ of the members of the Academy, this <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">Exposition de la Jeunesse</i> was the only opportunity given to artists for submitting their works to the public. At the time -when Chardin made his début at this +when Chardin made his début at this picture fair, the annual Academy Salon instituted by Louis XIV. had been abandoned for some years, so that even the @@ -1619,7 +1579,7 @@ the result of his bold venture.</p> <p>His fears proved to be unfounded. A contemporary of Chardin's has left an amusing account of what befell our timid -artist. M. de Largillière entered the first +artist. M. de Largillière entered the first room and carefully examined the pictures placed there by Chardin. Then he passed into the next room to speak to the candidate.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[58]</a></span> @@ -1629,7 +1589,7 @@ good Flemish painter—an excellent school for colour, this Flemish school. Now let us see your works." "Sir, you have just seen them." "What! these were your -pictures?" "Yes, sir." "Then," said Largillière, +pictures?" "Yes, sir." "Then," said Largillière, "present yourself, my friend, present yourself." Cazes, Chardin's old master, likewise fell into the innocent trap, and was @@ -1642,8 +1602,8 @@ the king, arrived, Chardin informed him that the exhibited pictures were painted by him, and that the Academy might dispose of those which were approved of. "He is -not yet 'confirmed' (<i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">agréé</i>) and he talks -already of being 'received' (<i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">reçu</i>)!<a name="FNanchor_2_2" id="FNanchor_2_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_2_2" class="fnanchor">2</a> However," +not yet 'confirmed' (<i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">agréé</i>) and he talks +already of being 'received' (<i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">reçu</i>)!<a name="FNanchor_2_2" id="FNanchor_2_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_2_2" class="fnanchor">2</a> However," he added, "you have done well to <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[60]</a></span>mention it." He reported the proposal, which was immediately accepted. The @@ -1658,11 +1618,11 @@ entrance fee was reduced to 100 livres. accepted as "diploma pictures."</p> <div class="figcenter"> -<div class="caption p4" id="PLATE_VII">PLATE VII.—LE PANNEAU DE PÊCHES<br /> +<div class="caption p4" id="PLATE_VII">PLATE VII.—LE PANNEAU DE PÊCHES<br /> <p class="in0 center padhalf">(In the Louvre)</p> -<p>"Le Panneau de Pêches," (The Basket of Peaches) is a magnificent +<p>"Le Panneau de Pêches," (The Basket of Peaches) is a magnificent instance of Chardin's extraordinary skill in the rendering of textures and substances. Note the perfect truth of all the colour-values, the play of light and shade and reflections, such as the opening up of @@ -1692,15 +1652,15 @@ asked the price, he immediately begged her to accept it "as a token of gratitude for her interest in his work." Admirably tactful is the form in which Chardin gives practical -expression to his gratitude for M. de Vandières' +expression to his gratitude for M. de Vandières' successful efforts at procuring him -a pension from the king. Through Lépicié, +a pension from the king. Through Lépicié, the secretary of the Academy, he begs -Vandières to accept the dedication of an engraving +Vandières to accept the dedication of an engraving after his "Lady with a Bird-organ"; and asks permission to state on the margin <i>that the original painting is in the Collection -of M. de Vandières</i>. The request +of M. de Vandières</i>. The request was granted.</p> <p>Small wonder, then, if in spite of the @@ -1715,7 +1675,7 @@ modest fortune, and had to go to live with her guardian. Chardin's father, who had<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[63]</a></span> warmly approved of his son's engagement, now objected to the marriage, but nothing -could deter Siméon from his honourable +could deter Siméon from his honourable purpose, and the marriage took place at St. Sulpice on February 1, 1731. He took his wife to his parents' house at the corner @@ -1742,7 +1702,7 @@ No doubt owing to his father's then rather powerful influence, Pierre Chardin gained the coveted prize in 1754, and after having passed his three years' probation at the -recently established <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">École des élèves protégés</i>, +recently established <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">École des élèves protégés</i>, which he had entered with the second batch of pupils by whom the first successful "Romans" were replaced, he set out for @@ -1769,7 +1729,7 @@ Paulmy, and was never heard of since. It was said that he had found his death in the waters of a Venetian Canal.</p> -<p>But to return to Siméon Chardin—we +<p>But to return to Siméon Chardin—we find him again among the exhibitors of the Place Dauphine in 1732, with some pieces of still-life, two large decorative @@ -1779,7 +1739,7 @@ bas-relief after a terra-cotta of Duquesnoy. These imitation reliefs were then much in vogue for over-doors and wall decorations in the houses of the great, as, for instance, -in the Palace of Compiègne. Two authentic +in the Palace of Compiègne. Two authentic pieces of the kind, executed in grisaille, are in the Collection of Dr. Tuffier. The one of the 1732 exhibition was bought @@ -1793,7 +1753,7 @@ destroy."</p> <p>About this time Chardin's still-life period comes to a close, and we find him henceforth devoting the best of his power to the -domestic genre "à la Teniers" (as it was +domestic genre "à la Teniers" (as it was dubbed by his own patrons and contemporaries), though even in later years still-life pieces continue to figure now and @@ -1906,7 +1866,7 @@ followed in the next year, including the the Louvre), and the "Cup of Tea"; and in 1740 his popularity reached its zenith with the exhibition of his masterpiece "Grace -before Meat" (<i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">le Bénédicité</i>), in addition +before Meat" (<i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">le Bénédicité</i>), in addition to which he showed the two <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">singeries</i>—"The Monkey Painter" and "The Monkey Antiquary" (now in the Louvre)—even @@ -1914,7 +1874,7 @@ Chardin could not hold out against the bad taste which applauded this stupid invention<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[72]</a></span> of the Netherlanders—and several other domestic genre pieces. A replica of -the Bénédicité was commissioned by Count +the Bénédicité was commissioned by Count Tessin for the King of Sweden, and is now at the Stockholm Museum.</p> @@ -1937,7 +1897,7 @@ rates, had no time to devote to the bringing up of his son, which was perhaps one of the reasons which induced him to marry, in the year following his mother's death, -a musketeer's widow, of thirty-seven, Fran<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[73]</a></span>çoise +a musketeer's widow, of thirty-seven, Fran<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[73]</a></span>çoise Marguerite Pouget, a worthy woman of no particular personal charm, to judge from the portrait left by the master's chalks, @@ -1959,7 +1919,7 @@ took a turn for the bad, he enjoyed the ownership of a house which he was then able to sell for 18,000 livres, a by no means paltry amount for these days. Moreover, in -1752, Lépicié's endeavours resulted in the +1752, Lépicié's endeavours resulted in the grant of a pension of 500 livres by the king, which, according to the petitioner's own<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[74]</a></span> words, was sufficient to secure Chardin's @@ -2015,7 +1975,7 @@ the Academy found itself in such straits,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_76" that the question of dissolving the institution had to be seriously considered. Chardin's appeal to Marigny, and through -him to the Abbé Terray, Comptroller-General +him to the Abbé Terray, Comptroller-General of Finances, however, led to the desired result, and the much needed support was granted.</p> @@ -2033,11 +1993,11 @@ commissions for the decoration of Royal and other residences. Thus, in 1764, his friend Cochin procured for him, through Marigny, a commission for some -over-doors for the Château of Choisy. They +over-doors for the Château of Choisy. They depicted the attributes of Science, Art, and Music, and were exhibited in the Salon of 1765. A similar order for two over-doors<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[77]</a></span> -in the music-room of the Château of +in the music-room of the Château of Bellevue—the instruments of civil and of military music—followed in the next year. The payment for the five, which was delayed @@ -2072,7 +2032,7 @@ century. A kind fate had saved him from the misfortune that fell to the share of his contemporaries Fragonard and Greuze, who outlived him by many years, but who also -outlived the <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">ancien régime</i> and died in +outlived the <i xml:lang="fr" lang="fr">ancien régime</i> and died in poverty and neglect and misery.</p> <p class="p2 in0 center"> @@ -2107,382 +2067,6 @@ they were definitely received by the Academy.</p></div> <p>Table of Contents added by Transcriber.</p> </div> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Chardin, by Paul G. 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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: Chardin - -Author: Paul G. Konody - -Editor: T. Leman Hare - -Release Date: January 20, 2013 [EBook #41886] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHARDIN *** - - - - -Produced by sp1nd, Charlie Howard, and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive) - - - - - - - - MASTERPIECES - IN COLOUR - EDITED BY - T. LEMAN HARE - - CHARDIN - - - - -IN THE SAME SERIES - - ARTIST. AUTHOR. - - VELAZQUEZ. S. L. BENSUSAN. - REYNOLDS. S. L. BENSUSAN. - TURNER. C. LEWIS HIND. - ROMNEY. C. LEWIS HIND. - GREUZE. ALYS EYRE MACKLIN. - BOTTICELLI. HENRY B. BINNS. - ROSSETTI. LUCIEN PISSARRO. - BELLINI. GEORGE HAY. - FRA ANGELICO. JAMES MASON. - REMBRANDT. JOSEF ISRAELS. - LEIGHTON. A. LYS BALDRY. - RAPHAEL. PAUL G. KONODY. - HOLMAN HUNT. MARY E. COLERIDGE. - TITIAN. S. L. BENSUSAN. - MILLAIS. A. LYS BALDRY. - CARLO DOLCI. GEORGE HAY. - GAINSBOROUGH. MAX ROTHSCHILD. - TINTORETTO. S. L. BENSUSAN. - LUINI. JAMES MASON. - FRANZ HALS. EDGCUMBE STALEY. - VAN DYCK. PERCY M. TURNER. - LEONARDO DA VINCI. M. W. BROCKWELL. - RUBENS. S. L. BENSUSAN. - WHISTLER. T. MARTIN WOOD. - HOLBEIN. S. L. BENSUSAN. - BURNE-JONES. A. LYS BALDRY. - VIGEE LE BRUN. C. HALDANE MACFALL. - J. F. MILLET. PERCY M. TURNER. - CHARDIN. PAUL G. KONODY. - -_In Preparation_ - - MEMLINC. W. H. JAMES WEALE. - ALBERT DUeRER. HERBERT FURST. - FRAGONARD. C. HALDANE MACFALL. - CONSTABLE. C. LEWIS HIND. - RAEBURN. JAMES L. CAW. - BOUCHER. C. HALDANE MACFALL. - WATTEAU. C. LEWIS HIND. - MURILLO. S. L. BENSUSAN. - JOHN S. SARGENT, R.A. T. MARTIN WOOD. - - AND OTHERS. - - -[Illustration: PLATE I.--STILL-LIFE. (Frontispiece) - -(In the Louvre) - -This "Still-Life," which is among the fine array of Chardin's pictures -at the Louvre, affords a striking illustration of the master's supreme -skill in rendering the surface qualities, textures, plastic properties, -and mutual colour relations of the most varied objects and substances, -such as porcelain, metals, linen, foodstuffs, wood, and so forth. The -composition is somewhat overcrowded, and lacks the sense of order in the -apparent disorder, that is so typical of Chardin's still-life -arrangements.] - - - - - CHARDIN - - BY PAUL G. KONODY - - ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT - REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR - - [Illustration: IN SEMPITERNUM.] - - LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK - NEW YORK: FREDERICK A. STOKES CO. - - - - -CONTENTS - - - Page - I. 9 - - II. 36 - - III. 46 - - - - -LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS - - - Plate - I. Still-Life Frontispiece - In the Louvre - - Page - II. La Fontaine, or the Woman Drawing Water 14 - In the National Gallery, London - - III. L'Enfant au Toton, or the Child with the Top 24 - In the Louvre - - IV. Le Benedicite, or Grace before Meat 34 - In the Hermitage Collection at St. Petersburg - - V. La Gouvernante, or Mother and Son 40 - In the Collection of Prince Liechtenstein in Vienna - - VI. La Mere Laborieuse 50 - In the Stockholm Museum - - VII. Le Panneau de Peches, or the Basket of Peaches 60 - In the Louvre - - VIII. La Pourvoyeuse 70 - In the Louvre - - -[Illustration] - - - - -I - - -Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin occupies a curious position among the -artists of his time and country. His art which, neglected and despised -for many decades after his death, is now admitted by those best -competent to judge to be supreme as regards technical excellence, and, -within the narrow limits of its subject matter, to possess merits of far -greater significance than are to be found in the work of any Frenchman, -save Watteau, from the founding of the school of Fontainebleau to modern -days, is apt to be regarded as an isolated phenomenon, un-French, out of -touch, and out of sympathy with the expression of the artistic genius of -eighteenth-century France. A grave misconception of the true inwardness -of things! Rather should it be said that Chardin was the one typically -French painter among a vast crowd of more or less close followers of a -tradition imported from Italy; the one painter of the actual life of his -people among the artificial caterers for an artificial and often -depraved and lascivious taste; a man of the people, of the vast -multitude formed by a homely, simple bourgeoisie; painting for the -people the subjects that appealed to the people. - -In order to understand the position of Chardin in the art of his country -it is necessary to bear in mind that the autochthonous painting of -France, the real expression of French genius, was from its early -beginnings closely connected with the art of the North, and not with -that of Italy. The style of the early French miniaturists of the -Burgundian School, of Fouquet and of Clouet, is the style of the North; -their art is interwoven with the art of Flanders. When in the time of -Francois I. the School of Fontainebleau, headed by Primaticcio and -Rosso, promulgated the gospel that artistic salvation could only be -found in the emulation of Raphael and the masters of the late Italian -Renaissance, and of the Bolognese eclectics; when finally degenerated -painters like Albani were held up as example, official art became -altogether Italianised and stereotyped; and the climax was reached with -the foundation of the School of Rome by Louis XIV. But, though -officially neglected and looked upon with disfavour, the national -element was not to be altogether crushed by the foreign importation. -Poussin remained French in spite of Italian training, and held aloof -from the coterie of Court painters. Jacques Callot carried on the -national tradition, though as a satirist and etcher of scenes from -contemporary life, rather than as a painter. And the Netherlands -continued directly or indirectly to stir up the sluggish stream of -national French art--directly through Watteau, who, born a Netherlander, -became the most typically French of all French painters; indirectly, -half a century earlier, through the brothers Le Nain, who drew their -subjects and inspiration from the North and their sombre colour from -Spain; and afterwards through Chardin, whose style was so closely akin -to that of the Flemings that, when he first submitted some pieces of -still-life to the members of the Academy, Largilliere himself took them -to be the work of some excellent unknown Flemish painter. - -What are the qualities that raise Chardin's art so high above the showy -productions of the French painters of his generation, placing him on -a pedestal by himself, and gaining for him the respect, the admiration, -the love of all artists and discerning art lovers? Why should this -painter of still-life and of small unpretentious domestic genre pieces -be extolled without reservation and ranked among the world's greatest -masters? - -[Illustration: PLATE II.--LA FONTAINE (THE WOMAN DRAWING WATER) - -(In the National Gallery, London) - -"La Fontaine," or the "Woman Drawing Water," is one of the two examples -of Chardin's art in the National Gallery. It is the subject of which -probably most versions are in existence, and figured among the eight -pictures sent by the master to the Salon of 1737, the first exhibition -held since 1704, and the first in which Chardin appeared as a painter of -genre pictures. The original version, which bears the date 1733, is at -the Stockholm Museum, and other replicas belong to Sir Frederick Cook in -Richmond, M. Marcille in Paris, Baron Schwiter, and to the Louvre. The -picture was engraved by Cochin.] - -The question finds its simplest solution in the fact that all great and -lasting art must be based on the study of Nature and of contemporary -life; that erudition and the imitation of the virtues of painters that -belong to a dead period never result in permanent appeal, especially if -they find expression in the repetition of mythological and allegorical -formulas which belong to the past, and have long ceased to be a living -language. Chardin's art is living and sincere, with never a trace of -affectation. In his paintings the most unpromising material, the most -prosaic objects on a humble kitchen table, the uneventful daily routine -of lower middle-class life, are rendered interesting by the warming -flame of human sympathy which moved the master to spend his supreme -skill upon them; by the human interest with which he knew how to invest -even inanimate objects. No painter knew like Chardin how to express in -terms of paint the substance and surface and texture of the most varied -objects; few have ever equalled him in the faultless precision of his -colour values; fewer still have carried the study of reflections to so -fine a point, and observed with such accuracy the most subtle nuances of -the changes wrought in the colour appearance of one object by the -proximity of another--but these are qualities that only an artist can -fully appreciate, and that can only be vaguely felt by the layman. They -belong to the sphere of technique. The strong appeal of Chardin's -still-life is due to the manner in which he invests inanimate objects -with living interest, with a sense of intimacy that enlists our sympathy -for the humble folk with whose existence these objects are connected, -and who, by mere accident as it were, just happen to be without the -frame of the picture. Perhaps they have just left the room, but the -atmosphere is still filled with their presence. - -If ever there was a painter to whom the old saying _celare artem est -summa ars_ is applicable, surely it was Chardin! A slow, meticulously -careful worker, who bestowed no end of time and trouble upon every -canvas, and whom nothing but perfection would satisfy, he never -attempted to gain applause by a display of cleverness or by technical -fireworks. The perfection of the result conceals the labour expended -upon it and the art by means of which it is achieved. And so it is with -the composition. His still-life arrangements, where everything is -deliberate selection, have an appearance of accidental grouping as -though the artist, fascinated by the colour of some viands and utensils -on a kitchen table, had yielded to an irresistible impulse, and -forthwith painted the things just as they offered themselves to his -delighted vision. How different it all is to the conception of -still-life of his compatriots of the "grand century" and even of his own -time! It was a sad misconception of the function and range of art that -made the seventeenth century draw the distinction between "noble" and -"ignoble" subjects. When they "stooped" to still-life it had to be -ennobled--that is to say, precious stuffs, elegant furniture, bronzes -and gold or silver goblets, choice specimens of hot-house flowers, and -such like material were piled up in what was considered picturesque -abundance--and the whole thing was as theatrical and tasteless and -sham-heroic as a portrait by Lebrun, the Court favourite. Even the Dutch -and Flemish still-life painters of the period, who had a far keener -appreciation of Nature, catered for the taste that preferred the display -of riches to simple truth. Their flowers and fruit were carefully chosen -faultless specimens, accompanied generally by costly objects and stuffs; -and on the whole these large decorative pieces were painted with -wonderful accuracy in the rendering of each individual blossom or other -detail, but with utter disregard of atmosphere. It has been rightly said -that these Netherlanders gave the same _kind_ of attention to every -object, whilst Chardin bestowed upon the component parts of his -still-life compositions not the same kind, but the same _degree_ of -attention. And above all, whilst suggesting the texture and volume and -material of each individual object with faultless accuracy, Chardin -never lost sight of the ensemble--that is to say, the opposition of -values, the interchange that takes place between the colours of two -different objects placed in close proximity, the reflections which -appear not only where they would naturally be expected, as on shiny -copper or other metals, but even those on comparatively dull surfaces, -which would probably escape the attention of the untrained eye. Chardin -looked upon everything with a true painter's vision; and his brush -expressed not his knowledge of the form of things, but the visual -impression produced by their ensemble. He did not think in outline, but -in colour. If proof were needed, it will be found in the extreme -scarcity of sketches and drawings from his hand. Only very few sketches -by Chardin are known, and these few proclaim the painter rather than the -draughtsman. - -Still, having pointed out the gulf that divides our master from the -still-life painters of the _grand siecle_, it is only right to add that -he did not burst upon the world as an isolated phenomenon, and that -painters like Desportes and Oudry form the bridge from Monnoyer, the -best known of the French seventeenth-century compilers of showy -monumental still-life, to Chardin. Monnoyer belongs to a time that knew -neither respect nor genuine love for Nature and her laws. He simply -followed the rules of the grand style, and had no eye for the play of -reflections and the other problems, which are the delight of the -moderns--and Chardin is essentially modern. Monnoyer's son Baptiste, and -his son-in-law Belin de Fontenay did not depart from his artificial -manner. But with Oudry, in spite of much that is still traditional in -his art, we arrive already at a new conception of still-life painting. -In a paper read by this artist to the Academy he relates how, in his -student days, when asked by Largilliere to paint some flowers, he placed -a carefully chosen, gaily coloured bouquet in a vase, when his master -stopped him and said: "I have set you this task to train you for colour. -Do you think the choice you have made will do for the purpose? Get a -bunch of flowers all white." Oudry did as he was bid, and was then told -to observe that the flowers are brown on the shadow side, that on a -light ground they appear in half tones, and that the whitest of them are -darker than absolute white. Largilliere then pointed out to him the -action of reflections, and made him paint by the side of the flowers -various white objects of different value for comparison. Oudry was not -a little surprised at discovering that the flowers consisted of an -accumulation of broken tones, and were given form and relief by the -magic of shadows. Both Oudry and Desportes did not consider common -objects unworthy of their attention, and in this way led up to the type -of work in which Chardin afterwards achieved his triumphs. - -[Illustration: PLATE III.--L'ENFANT AU TOTON (THE CHILD WITH THE TOP) - -(In the Louvre) - -"L'Enfant au Toton" ("The Child with the Top") is the portrait of -Auguste Gabriel Godefroy, son of the jeweller Godefroy, and is the -companion picture to the "Young Man with the Violin," which represents -the child's elder brother Charles. The two pictures were bought in 1907 -for the Louvre, at the high price of 350,000 francs. "L'Enfant au Toton" -was first exhibited at the Salon of 1738, and was engraved by Lepicie in -1742. A replica of the picture was in the collection of the late M. -Groult. It is one of Chardin's most delightful presentments of innocent -childish amusement, and illustrates at the same time the master's -supreme skill in the painting of still-life.] - -Chardin's still-life pictures never appear to be grouped to form -balanced arrangements of line and colour. The manner how the objects are -seen in the accidental position in which they were left by the hands -that used them holds more than a suggestion of genre painting. Indeed, -it may be said that all Chardin's still-life partakes of genre as much -as his genre partakes of still-life. A loaf of bread, a knife, and a -black bottle on a crumpled piece of paper; a basket, a few eggs, and a -copper pot, and such like material, suffice for him to create so vivid a -picture of simple home life, that only the presence of the housewife -or serving-maid is needed to raise the painting into the sphere of -domestic genre. Sometimes this scarcely needed touch of actual life is -given by the introduction of some domestic animal; and in these cases we -already find a hint of that unity of conception which in Chardin's genre -pieces links the living creature to the surrounding inanimate objects. -Take the famous "Skate" at the Louvre. On a table you see an earthen -pot, a saucepan, a kettle, and a knife, grouped in accidental disorder -on a negligently spread white napkin on the right; on the left are some -fish and oysters and leeks, and from the wall behind is suspended a huge -skate. A cat is carefully feeling its way among the oyster-shells, -deeply interested in the various victuals which it eyes with eager -longing. Even more pronounced is this attitude of interest in Baron -Henri de Rothschild's "Chat aux Aguets." Here a crouching cat, half -puzzled, half excited, is seen in the extreme left corner, crouching in -readiness to spring at a dead hare that is lying between a partridge and -a magnificent silver tureen, and is obviously the object of the feline's -hesitating attention. - -It is this complete absorption of the protagonists of Chardin's -genre scenes in their occupations or thoughts that fills his work -with such profound human interest. Chardin is never anecdotal, never -sentimental--in this respect, as well as in the solidity of his -technique, and in his scientific search for colour values and -atmosphere, he is vastly superior to Greuze, whose genre scenes are -never free from literary flavour and from a certain kind of affectation. -Nor does Chardin ever fancy himself in the role of the moralist like our -own Hogarth, with whom he has otherwise so much in common. He looks upon -his simple fellow-creatures with a sympathetic eye, watching them in the -pursuit of their daily avocation, the women conscientiously following -the routine of their housework or tenderly occupied with the education -of their children, the children themselves intent upon work or -play--never posing for artistic effect, but wholly oblivious of the -painter's watching eye. Chardin was by no means the first of his -country's masters to devote himself to contemporary life. Just as Oudry -took the first hesitating steps towards the Chardinesque conception of -still-life, so Jean Raoux busied himself in the closing days of the -seventeenth century with creating records of scenes taken from the daily -life of the people, but he never rid himself of the sugary affected -manner that was the taste of his time. It was left to Chardin to -introduce into the art of genre painting in France the sense of -intimacy, the homogeneous vision, the atmosphere of reality which we -find in such masterpieces as the "Grace before Meat," "The Reading -Lesson," "The Governess," "The Convalescent's Meal," "The Card Castle," -the "Recureuse," the "Pourvoyeuse," and the famous "Child with the Top," -which, after having changed hands in 1845, at the time when Chardin was -held in slight esteem, for less than L25, was recently bought for the -Louvre, together with the companion portrait of Charles Godefroy, "The -Young Man with the Violin," for the enormous price of L14,000. - -In the case of each of these pictures the first thing that strikes your -attention is the complete absorption of the personages in their -occupation. In the picture of the boy building the card castle you can -literally see him drawing in his breath for fear of upsetting the -fragile structure which he is erecting. You imagine you can hear the -sigh of relief with which the "Pourvoyeuse"--the woman returning from -market--deposits her heavy load of bread on the dresser, whilst the -sudden release of the weight that had been supported by her left arm -seems to increase the strain on her right. How admirable is the -expression of keen attention on the puckered brow of the child who in -"The Reading Lesson" tries to follow with plump finger the line -indicated by the school-mistress; or the solicitude of the governess -who, whilst addressing some final words of advice or admonition to the -neatly dressed boy about to depart for school, has just for the moment -ceased brushing his three-cornered hat. There is no need to give further -instances. In all Chardin's subject pictures he opens a door upon the -home life of the simple bourgeoisie to which he himself belonged by -birth and character, and allows you to watch from some safe hiding-place -the doings of these good folk who are utterly unaware of your presence. - -Having devoted his early years to still-life, and his prime to domestic -genre, Chardin lived long enough to weary his public and critics, and to -find himself in the position of a fallen favourite. But though his -eyesight had become affected, and his hands had lost the sureness of -their touch, so that he had practically to give up oil-painting, he -entered in his last years upon a short career of glorious achievement -in an entirely new sphere--he devoted himself to portraiture in pastel, -and gained once more the enthusiastic applause of the people, even -though the critics continued to exercise their severe and prejudiced -judgment, and to blame him for that very verve and violence of technique -which later received the Goncourt brothers' unstinted praise. "What -surprising images. What violent and inspired work; what scrumbling and -modelling; what rapid strokes and scratches!" His pastel portraits of -himself and of his second wife, and his magnificent head of a jockey -have the richness and plastic life of oil-paintings, and have indeed -more boldness and virility than the work even of the most renowned of -all French pastellists, La Tour. In view of their freshness and vigour, -it is difficult to realise that they are the work of a suffering -septuagenarian. - -The mention of the hostility shown by Chardin's contemporary critics -towards the system of juxtaposing touches of different colour in his -pastels, opens up a very interesting question with regard to the -master's technique of oil-painting and of the eighteenth-century -critics' attitude towards it. There is no need to dwell upon the comment -of a man like Mariette, who discovers in Chardin's paintings the signs -of too much labour, and deplores the "heavy monotonous touch, the lack -of ease in the brushwork, and the coldness of his work"--the "coldness" -of the master who, alone among all the painters of his time and country, -knew how to fill his canvases with a luscious warm atmosphere, and to -blend his tones in the mellowest of harmonies! "His colour is not true -enough," runs another of Mariette's comments. - -[Illustration: PLATE IV.--LE BENEDICITE (GRACE BEFORE MEAT) - -(In the Louvre) - -"Le Benedicite," or "Grace before Meat," is perhaps the most popular and -best known of all Chardin's domestic genre pieces. It combines the -highest technical and artistic qualities with a touching simplicity of -sentiment that must endear it even to those who cannot appreciate its -artistry. Several replicas of it are known, but the original is probably -the version in the Hermitage Collection at St. Petersburg. The Louvre -owns two examples--one from the collection of Louis XV., another from -the La Caze Collection. This latter version appeared three times in the -Paris sale-rooms, the last time in 1876, when it realised the sum of -L20! Another authentic replica is in the Marcille Collection, and yet -another at Stockholm.] - -Let us now listen to Diderot, though in fairness it should be stated -that the remarks which follow refer to Chardin's later work between 1761 -and 1767. First of all he is set down as "ever a faithful imitator of -Nature in his own manner, which is rude and abrupt--a nature low, -common, and domestic." A strange pronouncement on the part of the same -ill-balanced critic who, four years later, condemned Boucher because "in -all this numberless family you will not find one employed in a real act -of life, studying his lesson, reading, writing, stripping hemp." Thus -Chardin's vice is turned into virtue when it is a question of abusing a -master who avoided the "low, common, and domestic." In his topical -criticism on the Salon of 1761 Diderot tells us of Chardin, that it is -long since he has "finished" anything; that he shirks trouble, and works -like a man of the world who is endowed with talent and skill. In 1765 -Diderot utters the following curious statement: "Chardin's technique is -strange. When you are near you cannot distinguish anything; but as you -step back the objects take form and begin to be real nature." On a later -occasion he describes Chardin's style as "a harsh method of painting -with the thumb as much as with the brush; a juxtaposition of touches, a -confused and sparkling accumulation of pasty and rich colours." -Diderot is borne out by Bachaumont who at the same period writes: -"His method is irregular. He places his colours one after the other, -almost without mixing, so that his work bears a certain resemblance to -mosaic, or _point carre_ needlework." This description, given by two -independent contemporaries, almost suggests the technique of the modern -impressionists and pointillists; and if the present appearance of -Chardin's paintings scarcely tallies with Diderot's and Bachaumont's -explanation, it should not be forgotten that a century and a half have -passed over these erstwhile "rude and violent" mosaics of colour -touches, and that this stretch of time is quite sufficient to allow the -colours to re-act upon each other--in a chemical sense, to permeate each -other, to fuse and blend, and to form a mellow, warm, harmonious surface -that shows no trace of harsh and abrupt touches. Thus it would appear -that Chardin discounted the effects of time and worked for posterity. -In one of his rare happy moments Diderot realised this fact, and took up -the cudgels for our master. In his critique of the 1767 Salon he -explains that "Chardin sees his works twelve years hence; and those who -condemn him are as wrong as those young artists who copy servilely at -Rome the pictures painted 150 years ago." - - - - -II - - -Chardin's physical appearance, such as we find it in authentic -portraits, his character, as it is revealed to us by his words and his -actions, and the whole quiet and comparatively uneventful course of his -life, are in most absolute harmony with his art. Indeed, Chardin's -personality might, with a little imagination, be reconstructed from his -pictures. He was a bourgeois to the finger-tips--a righteous, -kind-hearted, hard-working man who never knew the consuming fire of a -great passion, and who was apparently free from the vagaries, -inconsistencies, and irregularities usually associated with the artistic -temperament. Though never overburdened with the weight of worldly -possessions, he was never in real poverty, never felt the pangs of -hunger. He had as good an education as his father's humble condition -would permit, and his choice of a career not only met with no -opposition, but was warmly encouraged. In his profession he rose slowly -and gradually to high honour, and never experienced serious rebuffs or -checks. His disposition was not of the kind to kindle enmity or even -jealousy. His early affection for the girl who was to become his first -wife was faithful, but not of the kind to prompt him to hasty action--he -waited until his financial position enabled him to keep a modest home, -and then he married. He married a second time, nine years after his -first wife's death, and this time his choice fell upon a widow with a -small fortune, a practical shrewd woman, who was of no little help to -him in the management of his affairs. It was not exactly a love match, -but the two simple people suited each other, were of the same social -position, and in similar comfortable circumstances, and managed to live -peacefully and contentedly in modest bourgeois fashion. - -How dull, how bald, how negative the smooth course of this life of -virtue and honest labour seems, contrasted with the eventful, stormy, -passionate life of a Boucher or a Fragonard who were in the stream of -fashion, and adopted the manner and licentiousness and vices of their -courtly patrons. There is never an immodest thought, never a piquant -suggestion in Chardin's paintings. They reflect his own life; perhaps -they represent the very surroundings in which he spent his busy days, -for we find in their sequence the clear indication of growing prosperity -from a condition which verges on poverty--respectable, not sordid, -poverty--to comparative luxury; from drudgery in kitchen and courtyard -to tea in the cosy parlour. There can be but little doubt that many -a time the master's brush was devoted to the recording of his own home, -his own family, the even tenor of his life. - -[Illustration: PLATE V.--LA GOUVERNANTE (MOTHER AND SON) - -(In the collection of Prince Liechtenstein in Vienna) - -"La Gouvernante," or "Mother and Son," is one of the most attractive of -the many Chardin pictures in the collection of Prince Liechtenstein in -Vienna. Observe the perfectly natural attitude of the woman and the -child, in which there is not the slightest hint of posing for the -artist. Like all Chardin's genre pictures, it is, as it were, a glimpse -of real life. This picture and its companion "La Mere Laborieuse" -figured at the sale of Chardin's works after his death, when his art -received such scant appreciation that the pair only realised 30 livres 4 -sous!] - -The man's character--and more than that, his _milieu_--are expressed in -no uncertain fashion in his three auto-portraits, two of which are at -the Louvre, and one in the Collection of M. Leon Michel-Levy. A good, -kind-hearted, simple-minded man he appears in these pastel portraits, -which all date from the last years of his life, a man incapable of -wickedness or meanness, and endowed with a keen sense of humour that -lingers about the corners of his mouth. It is a face that immediately -enlists sympathy by its obvious readiness for sympathy with others. And -so convincing are these portraits in their straightforward bold -statement, that they may be accepted as documentary testimony to the -man's character, even if we had not the evidence of Fragonard's much -earlier portrait of Chardin, which was until recently in the Rodolphe -Kann Collection, and is at present in the possession of Messrs. Duveen -Bros. With the exception of such differences as may be accounted for by -the differences of age, all these portraits tally to a remarkable -degree. The features are the same, and the expression is identical--the -same keen, penetrating eyes, which even in his declining years have lost -none of their searching intelligence, even though they have to be aided -by round horn-rimmed spectacles; the same revelation of a lovable -nature, even though in M. Michel-Levy's version worry and suffering have -left their traces on the features. He is the embodiment of decent -middle-class respectability. Decency and a high sense of honour marked -every act of his life, and decency had to be kept up in external -appearances. On his very deathbed, when he was tortured by the pangs of -one of the most terrible of diseases, dropsy having set in upon stone, -he still insisted upon his daily shave! - -Yet Chardin, the bourgeois incarnate, was anything but a Philistine. -From this he was saved by his life-long devotion to, and his ardent -enthusiasm for, his art. He was not given to bursts of the theatrical -eloquence that is so dear to the men of his race; but the scanty records -we have of his sayings testify to the humble, profound respect in which -he held the art of painting. "Art is an island of which I have only -skirted the coast-line," runs the often quoted phrase to which he gave -utterance at a time when he had attained to his highest achievement. To -an artist who talked to him about his method of improving the colours, -he replied in characteristic fashion: "And who has told you, sir, that -one paints with colours?" "With what then?" questioned his perplexed -interviewer. "One _uses_ colours, but one paints with feeling." - -Brilliant technician as he was, and admirable critic of his own and -other artists' work, Chardin lacked the gift to communicate his -knowledge to others. He was a bad teacher--he was a wretched teacher. -Even such pliable material as Fragonard's genius yielded no results to -his honest efforts. It was Boucher who, at the height of his vogue and -overburdened with commissions that did not allow him the time to devote -himself to the nursing of a raw talent, recommended Fragonard to work in -Chardin's studio; but six months' teaching by the master failed to bring -out the pupil's brilliant gifts. Chardin knew not how to impart his -marvellous technique to young Fragonard, and Fragonard returned to -Boucher without having appreciably benefited by Chardin's instruction. -The master had no better luck with his own son, though in this case the -failure was due rather to lack of talent than to bad teaching, for Van -Loo and Natoire were equally unsuccessful in their efforts to develop -the unfortunate young man's feeble gifts. There is a touch of deepest -pathos in the reference made by Chardin to his son at the close of an -address to his Academic colleagues in 1765: "Gentlemen, gentlemen, be -indulgent! He who has not felt the difficulty of art does nothing that -counts; he who, like my son, has felt it too much, does nothing at all. -Farewell, gentlemen, and be indulgent, be indulgent!" - -Chardin had no artistic progeny to carry on his tradition, partly, -perhaps, because he failed as a teacher, more probably because the -Revolution and the Empire were close at hand when he died, and because -the social upheavals led to new ideals and to an art that was based on -an altogether different aesthetic code. The star of David rose when -Chardin's gave its last flickers; and Chardin himself was among the -commissioners who signed on the 10th of January 1778 the highly -laudatory report on David's large battle sketch sent to Paris by the -Director of the School of Rome. Yet who would venture to-day to mention -the two in the same breath. David has fallen into well-deserved -oblivion, and the example of Chardin's glorious paintings has done what -was beyond the master's own power--it has created a School that is daily -enlisting an increasing number of highly gifted followers. Chardin's -name is honoured and revered in every modern painter's studio. - - - - -III - - -Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin was born in Paris on November 2, 1699, the -second son of Jean Chardin, cabinetmaker, or to be more strict, -billiard-table maker, a hard-working man who rose to be syndic of his -corporation, but who, the father of a family of five, was fortunately -not sufficiently prosperous to give his son a literary education. I say -fortunately, because it was probably his ignorance of mythology and -classic lore that made Chardin, who often bitterly regretted his -educational deficiencies, turn his attention to those subjects which -required a keenly observing eye and a sure hand, and not a fertile -imagination stimulated by book-knowledge. His lack of education saved -Chardin from allegorical and mythological clap-trap, and made him the -great painter of the visible world of his time. Though Jean Chardin -wanted his son to take up his own profession, he was quick in -recognising and encouraging the boy's early talent, and finally made him -enter the Atelier of Pierre Jacques Cazes where Simeon received his -first systematic training. Cazes was a capable enough painter in the -traditional grand manner of Le Brun, which had been taught to him by Bon -Boullogne. He had taken the Prix de Rome, and issued victorious from -several other competitions, but, like Rigaud and Largilliere and several -other distinguished painters of the period, never availed himself of the -privilege entailed by the award of the Prix de Rome. Indeed, he was not -a little proud of this fact, as he showed by his reply to Crozat who -commiserated with him for having never seen the Italian masterpieces--"I -have proved that one can do without them." Yet whatever merit there may -have been in Cazes' work, and whatever may have been his own opinion on -this subject, prosperity came not his way; and although he was appointed -Professor at the Academy, and rose to great popularity as a teacher, he -remained so poor that he could not afford to provide his pupils with -living models. They had to learn what they could from copying their -master's compositions and studies. - -The copying of designs, based on literary conceptions and knowledge of -the classics, could not possibly be either beneficial or attractive for -a youth who lacked the education needed for understanding these -subjects, and who was, moreover, deeply interested in the life that came -under his personal observation. The tasks set to him by Cazes must have -appeared to Chardin like the drudgery of acquiring proficiency in a -hieroglyphic language that conveyed no definite meaning to him. Still, -Chardin made such progress under his first master that Noel Nicolas -Coypel engaged him as assistant to paint the details in some -decorative over-door panels representing the Seasons and the Pleasures -of the Chase. - -[Illustration: PLATE VI.--LA MERE LABORIEUSE - -(In the Stockholm Museum) - -"La Mere Laborieuse," which is the companion picture to "La -Gouvernante," was first exhibited at the Salon of 1745, where it -attracted the attention of Count Tessin, who immediately commissioned -the replica which is now at the Stockholm Museum. The picture was -engraved by Lepicie in the same year in which it was first exhibited.] - -In Coypel Chardin found a master of very different calibre--a teacher -after his own heart. The systematised knowledge of the principles -adopted by the late Bolognese masters, rules of composition and of the -distribution of light and shade, were certainly of little use to him -when, on beginning his work in Coypel's studio, he was set the task of -painting a gun in the hand of a sportsman. Chardin was amazed at the -trouble taken by his employer, and at the amount of thought expended by -him upon the placing and lighting of the object. The painting of this -gun was Chardin's first valuable lesson. He was made to realise the -importance of a comparatively insignificant accessory. He was shown how -its position would affect the rhythm of the design. He was taught to -paint with minute accuracy whatever his eye beheld. He was told, -perhaps for the first time, that it was not enough to paint a -hieroglyphic that will be recognised to represent a gun, but that the -paint should express the true appearance of the object, its plastic -form, its surface, the texture of the material, the play of light and -shade and reflections. The lesson of this gun gave the death blow to -traditional recipes, and laid the foundation of Chardin's art. - -Chardin did well under the new tuition, so well that Jean-Baptiste Van -Loo engaged him to help in the restoration of some paintings in the -gallery of Fontainebleau. It must have been a formidable task, since not -only Chardin, but J. B. Van Loo's younger brother Charles and some -Academy students were made to join the master's staff. Five francs a day -and an excellent dinner on the completion of the work were the wages for -the job which in some way was a memorable event in our master's life. -With the exception of a visit to Rouen in his old age, the trip to -Fontainebleau afforded Chardin the only glimpse he ever had of the -world beyond Paris and the surrounding district. - -The first record we have of Chardin's independent activity has reference -to an astonishing piece of work which has disappeared long since, but is -known to us from an etching by J. de Goncourt. The work in question was -a large signboard, 14 feet 3 inches long by 2 feet 3 inches wide, -commissioned from him by a surgeon who was on terms of friendship with -Chardin's father. Perhaps the young artist had seen Watteau's famous -signboard for Gersaint, now in the German Emperor's Collection. However -this may be, like Watteau he departed from the customary practice of -filling the board with a design made up of the implements of the -patron's craft,[1] and painted an animated street scene, representing -the sequel to a duel. The scene is outside the house of a surgeon who -is attending to the wound of the defeated combatant, whilst a group of -idle folk of all conditions, attracted by curiosity, have assembled in -the street, and are watching the proceedings, and excitedly discussing -the occurrence. Although Goncourt's etching naturally gives no -indication of the colour and technique of this remarkable and -unconventional painting, it enables us to see the very natural and -skilful grouping and the excellent management of light and shade which -Chardin had mastered even at that early period. - -The sign was put up on a Sunday, and attracted a vast crowd whose -exclamations induced the surgeon to step outside his house and ascertain -the cause of the stir. Being a man of little taste, his anger was -aroused by Chardin's bold departure from convention, but the general -approval with which the _quartier_ greeted Chardin's original conception -soon soothed his ruffled spirit, and the incident led to no further -unpleasantness. - -Save for the story of the surgeon's sign, nothing is known of Chardin's -doings from his days of apprenticeship to his first appearance, in 1728, -at the _Exposition de la Jeunesse_, a kind of open-air Salon without -jury, held annually in the Place Dauphine on Corpus Christi day, between -6 A.M. and midday, "weather permitting." With the exception of the -annual Salon at the Louvre, which was only open to the works of the -members of the Academy, this _Exposition de la Jeunesse_ was the only -opportunity given to artists for submitting their works to the public. -At the time when Chardin made his debut at this picture fair, the annual -Academy Salon instituted by Louis XIV. had been abandoned for some -years, so that even the members of the Academy were driven to the Place -Dauphine in order to keep in touch with the public. In the contemporary -criticisms of the _Mercure_ the names of all the greatest French masters -of the first half of the eighteenth century are to be found among the -exhibitors of the _Jeunesse_--the shining lights of the profession, -Coypel, Rigaud, De Troy, among the crowd of youngsters eager to make -their reputation. Lancret, Oudry, Boucher, Nattier, Lemoine--none of -them disdained to show their works under conditions which had much more -in common with those that obtain at an annual fair, than with those we -are accustomed to associate with a picture exhibition. The spectacle of -dignified Academicians thus seeking public suffrage in the street -finally induced Louis de Boullogne, Director of the Academy, to seek for -an amelioration of the prevailing conditions, and thanks to the -intervention of the Comptroller-general of the King's Buildings the -Salon of the Louvre was re-opened in 1725 for a term of four -days--"outsiders" being excluded as of yore. - -On Corpus Christi day, 1728, Chardin, then in his twenty-ninth year, -availed himself for the first time of the opportunity given to rising -talent, and made his appearance at the Place Dauphine with a dozen -still-life paintings, including "The Skate" and "The Buffet"--the two -masterpieces which are counted to-day among the treasured possessions of -the Louvre. This sudden revelation of so personal and fully developed a -talent caused no little stir. Chardin was hailed as a master worthy to -be placed beside the great Netherlandish still-life painters, and was -urged by his friends to "present himself" forthwith at the Academy. -Chardin reluctantly followed the advice, and, having arranged his -pictures ready for inspection in the first room of the Academy at the -Louvre, retired to an adjoining apartment, where he awaited, not without -serious misgivings, the result of his bold venture. - -His fears proved to be unfounded. A contemporary of Chardin's has left -an amusing account of what befell our timid artist. M. de Largilliere -entered the first room and carefully examined the pictures placed there -by Chardin. Then he passed into the next room to speak to the -candidate. "You have here some very fine pictures which are surely the -work of some good Flemish painter--an excellent school for colour, this -Flemish school. Now let us see your works." "Sir, you have just seen -them." "What! these were your pictures?" "Yes, sir." "Then," said -Largilliere, "present yourself, my friend, present yourself." Cazes, -Chardin's old master, likewise fell into the innocent trap, and was -equally complimentary, without suspecting the authorship of the exposed -pictures. In fact, he undertook to stand as his pupil's sponsor. When -Louis de Boullogne, Director of the Academy and painter to the king, -arrived, Chardin informed him that the exhibited pictures were painted -by him, and that the Academy might dispose of those which were approved -of. "He is not yet 'confirmed' (_agree_) and he talks already of being -'received' (_recu_)![2] However," he added, "you have done well to -mention it." He reported the proposal, which was immediately -accepted. The ballot resulted in Chardin being at the same time, -"confirmed" and "received." On Sept. 25, 1728, he was sworn in, and -became a full member of the Academy. In recognition of his rare genius, -and in consideration of his impecunious condition, his entrance fee was -reduced to 100 livres. "The Buffet" and a "Kitchen" piece were accepted -as "diploma pictures." - -[Illustration: PLATE VII.--LE PANNEAU DE PECHES - -(In the Louvre) - -"Le Panneau de Peches," (The Basket of Peaches) is a magnificent -instance of Chardin's extraordinary skill in the rendering of textures -and substances. Note the perfect truth of all the colour-values, the -play of light and shade and reflections, such as the opening up of the -shadow thrown by the tumbler owing to the refractive qualities of the -wine contained in the glass. Note, also, the "accidental" appearance of -the carefully grouped objects--the manner in which the knife-handle -projects from the table. The plate is reproduced from the original -painting at the Louvre in Paris.] - -In spite of this sudden success, Chardin was by no means on the road to -fortune. His pictures sold slowly and at very low prices. He always had -a very modest opinion of the financial value of his works, and was ever -ready to part with them at ridiculously low prices, or to offer them as -presents to his friends. The story goes that on one occasion, when his -friend Le Bas wished to buy a picture which Chardin was just finishing, -he offered to exchange it for a pretty waistcoat. When the king's sister -admired one of his pastel portraits and asked the price, he immediately -begged her to accept it "as a token of gratitude for her interest in his -work." Admirably tactful is the form in which Chardin gives practical -expression to his gratitude for M. de Vandieres' successful efforts at -procuring him a pension from the king. Through Lepicie, the secretary of -the Academy, he begs Vandieres to accept the dedication of an engraving -after his "Lady with a Bird-organ"; and asks permission to state on the -margin _that the original painting is in the Collection of M. de -Vandieres_. The request was granted. - -Small wonder, then, if in spite of the modesty of his personal -requirements Chardin, even after his election to the Academy, had to -wait over two years before he was in a position to marry Marguerite -Sainctar, whom he had met at a dance some years before, and who during -the period of waiting had lost her health, her parents, and her modest -fortune, and had to go to live with her guardian. Chardin's father, who -had warmly approved of his son's engagement, now objected to the -marriage, but nothing could deter Simeon from his honourable purpose, -and the marriage took place at St. Sulpice on February 1, 1731. He took -his wife to his parents' house at the corner of the Rue Princesse, -where he had been living before his marriage, and before the end of -the year he was presented with a son, who was given the name Pierre -Jean-Baptiste. Two years later a daughter was born--Marguerite Agnes; -but Chardin's domestic happiness was not destined to last long, for on -April 14, 1735, he lost both wife and daughter. - -His son was, however, his greatest source of grief. Remembering the -imaginary disadvantages he had suffered from his lack of humanistic -education, he determined that his boy should be better equipped for the -artistic profession, and had him thoroughly well instructed in the -classics. He then had him prepared at one of the Academy ateliers for -competing for the Prix de Rome. No doubt owing to his father's then -rather powerful influence, Pierre Chardin gained the coveted prize in -1754, and after having passed his three years' probation at the recently -established _Ecole des eleves proteges_, which he had entered with the -second batch of pupils by whom the first successful "Romans" were -replaced, he set out for Rome in October 1757. But Pierre, discouraged -perhaps from his earliest attempts by the perfection of his father's art -which he could never hope to attain, indolent moreover and intractable, -made little progress under Natoire, who was then Director of the School -of Rome. Pierre worked little, quarrelled with his colleagues, and never -produced either a copy or an original work that was considered good -enough to be sent to Paris. "He does not know how to handle the brush, -and what he does looks like a tired and not very pleasing attempt," runs -Natoire's report to Marigny in 1761. He returned to Paris in 1762, but -his whole life was a failure. He fully realised his inability ever to -arrive at artistic achievement. In 1767 he went to Venice with the -French ambassador, the Marquis de Paulmy, and was never heard of since. -It was said that he had found his death in the waters of a Venetian -Canal. - -But to return to Simeon Chardin--we find him again among the exhibitors -of the Place Dauphine in 1732, with some pieces of still-life, two large -decorative panels of musical trophies, and a wonderfully realistic -painting in imitation of a bronze bas-relief after a terra-cotta of -Duquesnoy. These imitation reliefs were then much in vogue for -over-doors and wall decorations in the houses of the great, as, for -instance, in the Palace of Compiegne. Two authentic pieces of the kind, -executed in grisaille, are in the Collection of Dr. Tuffier. The one of -the 1732 exhibition was bought by Van Loo for 200 livres, and is now in -the Marcille Collection. According to contemporary criticism the -bronze-tone of the relief was so perfectly rendered that it produced an -illusion "which touch alone can destroy." - -About this time Chardin's still-life period comes to a close, and we -find him henceforth devoting the best of his power to the domestic genre -"a la Teniers" (as it was dubbed by his own patrons and contemporaries), -though even in later years still-life pieces continue to figure now and -then among his Salon exhibits. His first triumphs in the new field of -action were scored in 1734, when his sixteen contributions to the -_Jeunesse_ exhibition included the "Washerwoman" (now in the Hermitage -Collection), the "Woman drawing Water" (painted in several versions or -replicas, of which the best known are at the Stockholm Museum, and in -the Collections of Sir Frederick Cook at Richmond and of M. Eudoxe -Marcille in Paris); the "Card Castle" (now in the Collection of Baron -Henri de Rothschild); and the "Lady sealing a Letter" (in the German -Emperor's Collection). It is interesting to note that this last named -picture is the only genre piece by Chardin with life size figures. - -Chardin's new departure immediately found favour, and although he -continued to charge ludicrously inadequate prices for his work, which, -with the deliberate slowness of his method, prevented him from rising to -well deserved prosperity, he not only experienced no difficulty in -disposing of his pictures, but had to duplicate and reduplicate them to -meet the demand of his patrons, foremost among whom were the Swedish -Count Tessin and the Austrian Prince Liechtenstein. In view of the many -versions that exist of most of the master's genre pieces it is often -difficult or impossible to decide which is the original, and which a -replica. The artist's modesty with regard to his charges may be gathered -from the fact that, at the time of his highest vogue, he only asked -twenty-five louis-d'or a piece for two pictures commissioned by Count -Tessin, whilst the painter Wille was able to secure a pair for -thirty-six livres. - -Three of the genre pictures of the 1734 exhibition were sent by Chardin -in the following year to a competitive show held by the Academicians to -fill the vacancies of professor, adjuncts, and councillors of the -Academy; but Chardin was among the unsuccessful candidates, the votes -declaring in favour of Michel and Carle Van Loo, Boucher, Natoire, -Lancret, and Parrocel. - -The regular course of the Academy Salons, which had been interrupted -since 1704, save for the tentative four days' exhibition at the Louvre -in 1725, was resumed in 1737, first in alternate years, and then -annually without break until the present day. At the inaugural -exhibition Chardin exhibited again the three pieces of the 1732 and 1735 -shows, together with Van Loo's bronze relief, the portrait of his friend -Aved (known as "Le Souffleur," or "The Chemist"), and several pictures -of children playing, a class of subject in which the master stands -unrivalled among the Frenchmen of his time. Fragonard, of course, -achieved greatness as a painter of children, but to him the child was an -object for portraiture, whilst Chardin, the student of life, painted the -_life_, the work and pleasures, of the child, at the same time never -losing sight of portraiture. - -[Illustration: PLATE VIII.--LA POURVOYEUSE - -(In the Louvre) - -"La Pourvoyeuse," of which picture the first dated version, painted in -1738, is in the possession of the German Emperor, is one of the most -masterly of Chardin's earlier pictures of homely incidents of everyday -life. The attitude of the woman, who has just returned from market and -is depositing her load of victuals, is admirably true to life; and the -still-life painting of the black bottles on the ground, the pewter -plate, the loaf of bread, and so forth, testifies to the master's -supreme skill. From the glimpse of the courtyard through the open door, -it can be seen that the setting of the sun is identical with that of -"The Fountain"--that is to say, that it represents the modest house in -the Rue Princesse, in which Chardin lived up to the time of his second -marriage. Another replica is in the collection of Prince Liechtenstein -in Vienna. Our plate is reproduced from the version in the Louvre.] - -His success was decisive. His reputation was now firmly established, -and still further increased by his next year's exhibit of eight -pictures--among them the "Boy with the Top," and also the "Lady sealing -a Letter," which he had already shown at the Jeunesse exhibition in -1734. Six pictures followed in the next year, including the "Governess," -the "Pourvoyeuse" (now in the Louvre), and the "Cup of Tea"; and in 1740 -his popularity reached its zenith with the exhibition of his masterpiece -"Grace before Meat" (_le Benedicite_), in addition to which he showed -the two _singeries_--"The Monkey Painter" and "The Monkey Antiquary" -(now in the Louvre)--even Chardin could not hold out against the bad -taste which applauded this stupid invention of the Netherlanders--and -several other domestic genre pieces. A replica of the Benedicite was -commissioned by Count Tessin for the King of Sweden, and is now at the -Stockholm Museum. - -The bad state of his health seriously interfered with his work during -the next few years, and his contributions to the Salon of 1741 were -restricted to "The Morning Toilet" and "M. Lenoir's Son building a Card -Castle," whilst he was an absentee from the following year's exhibition. - -In 1743 Chardin lost his mother, with whom he had been living since his -wife's death, and who had been looking after his boy's early education. -Chardin, slow worker as he always was, and overwhelmed with commissions -for new pictures and replicas, which he continued to paint at starvation -rates, had no time to devote to the bringing up of his son, which was -perhaps one of the reasons which induced him to marry, in the year -following his mother's death, a musketeer's widow, of thirty-seven, -Francoise Marguerite Pouget, a worthy woman of no particular personal -charm, to judge from the portrait left by the master's chalks, but an -excellent housekeeper who managed to bring a certain degree of order -into her husband's affairs, and proved to be of no little assistance to -him in his business dealings. It was not exactly a love match, but there -is no reason for doubting that the two worthy people lived in complete -harmony and enjoyed a fair amount of comfort. The repeated references to -his "financial troubles" need not be taken in too literal a sense, since -from 1744, the year of his marriage, when he transferred his quarters to -his wife's house in the Rue Princesse, until 1774, when his affairs -really took a turn for the bad, he enjoyed the ownership of a house -which he was then able to sell for 18,000 livres, a by no means paltry -amount for these days. Moreover, in 1752, Lepicie's endeavours resulted -in the grant of a pension of 500 livres by the king, which, according to -the petitioner's own words, was sufficient to secure Chardin's comfort. -True enough, when the artist died in 1779, his widow applied for relief -on the pretext of being practically left without means of subsistence. -But an investigation of the case led to the discovery that she was in -enjoyment of an annual income of from 6000 to 8000 livres! A daughter, -who was born to the master by his second wife, died soon after having -seen the light of the world. - -The year 1746 was apparently more productive than the five preceding -years; but henceforth the number of his subject pictures became more and -more restricted, and Chardin, perhaps discouraged by the public -grumbling at his lack of original invention, returned to the sphere of -his early successes--to still-life. Meanwhile his probity and -uprightness had gained him the highest esteem of his Academic colleagues -and brought him new honours in his official position. He was appointed -Treasurer of the Academy in 1755, and soon afterwards succeeded J. A. -Portail as "hanger" of the Salon exhibition, a difficult office which -needed a man of Chardin's tact, fairness, and honesty. - -When Chardin took up his duties as Treasurer he found the finances of -the Academy in a deplorable condition. His predecessor J. B. Reydellet, -who had acted as "huissier and concierge," had neither been able to -exercise a restraining influence upon the rowdy tendencies of the -students, nor to keep even a semblance of order in the accounts. On his -death his legacy to the Academy was a deficit of close on 10,000 livres. -Chardin, assisted by his business-like wife, did his best to wipe off -the effects of his predecessor's negligence or incompetence, but the -task added very considerably to his worries, especially as, owing to -financial stress, the Academicians' pensions were frequently kept in -arrear, and for years Royal support was withheld. Matters reached a -climax in 1772, when the Academy found itself in such straits, that the -question of dissolving the institution had to be seriously considered. -Chardin's appeal to Marigny, and through him to the Abbe Terray, -Comptroller-General of Finances, however, led to the desired result, and -the much needed support was granted. - -The quarters at the Louvre, vacated by the death of the king's engraver -and goldsmith Marteau in March 1757, were given to Chardin, who let his -house in the Rue Princesse to Joseph Vernet--another change which must -have contributed considerably to the ageing master's peace of mind. In -his wonted slow manner he continued to paint still-life, and received -several important commissions for the decoration of Royal and other -residences. Thus, in 1764, his friend Cochin procured for him, through -Marigny, a commission for some over-doors for the Chateau of Choisy. -They depicted the attributes of Science, Art, and Music, and were -exhibited in the Salon of 1765. A similar order for two over-doors in -the music-room of the Chateau of Bellevue--the instruments of civil and -of military music--followed in the next year. The payment for the five, -which was delayed until 1771, amounted to 5000 livres. - -Chardin's last years were saddened by the tragic end of his son and by a -terribly painful illness. His duties as Treasurer became too much for -him, and he resigned this office to the sculptor Coustou in 1774. There -was a small deficit which he volunteered to make good, but this offer -was declined, and a banquet was given to him by his colleagues as an -expression of their appreciation of his services. The acute suffering -caused by his illness did not prevent him from continuing his artistic -work, and we find him at the very end of his career branching out in an -entirely new direction. The pastel portraits of his closing years betray -no decline in keenness of vision and in power of expression. Indeed, -they must be counted among his finest achievements. He worked to the -very last, and sent some pastel heads to the Salon of 1779. On the 6th -of December of the same year he breathed his last. His remains were -buried at St. Germain-l'Auxerrois, in the parish of the Louvre. With him -died the art of the French eighteenth century. A kind fate had saved him -from the misfortune that fell to the share of his contemporaries -Fragonard and Greuze, who outlived him by many years, but who also -outlived the _ancien regime_ and died in poverty and neglect and misery. - - - The plates are printed by BEMROSE & SONS, LTD., London and Derby - The text at the BALLANTYNE PRESS, Edinburgh - - - - -FOOTNOTES: - -[1] A signboard of the conventional type, but painted with all Chardin's -consummate mastery, is the one executed for the perfume distiller -Pinaud, which appeared at the Guildhall Exhibition in 1902, and at -Whitechapel in 1907. - -[2] The candidates had to pass through a probationary stage before they -were definitely received by the Academy. - - - - -Transcriber's Notes: - -Simple typographical errors were corrected. - -Page 30: "Goncourt brothers'" was printed as "brothers' Goncourt". - -Table of Contents added by Transcriber. - - - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Chardin, by Paul G. 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