Jean Siméon Chardin (1699-1779) (after) - Lot 38

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Jean Siméon Chardin (1699-1779) (after) - Lot 38
Jean Siméon Chardin (1699-1779) (after) The Squirrel. 1740, engraved by C. N. Cochin. 220x275mm. Bocher 16. Very fine proof on ivory laid paper, uniformly oxidized. Small halo of moisture in left margin. Good margins (top margin slightly nicked in the middle). The original painting was exhibited at the Louvre in 1738, under the title Une Récureuse. According to Pierre Rosenberg, it is the painting that disappeared with the Henri de Rothschild collection in 1942 during an air raid in Bath. Two versions are known, one in Washington's National Gallery of Art, the other in Glasgow's Hunterian Art Gallery. "In his Écureuse, Chardin happily blends the kitchen objects he had painted in isolation a few years earlier - a copper cauldron, a skimmer, an earthen frying pan and a long-stemmed stove, a wooden vat and a large "earthen vase" (?) - with a female figure, seen in profile, wearing a white bonnet and elegantly dressed to perform her task. As usual, Chardin gives great importance to concave and convex forms, objects, their colors and materials. But above all, he focuses on his female model, who appears to be posing, gazing absently. The squirrel is motionless, silent, her face inexpressive, she seems to perform the same gestures every day and yet seems out of time..." (Pierre Rosenberg, Chardin 1699-1779, exhibition cat., Paris, Grand Palais, RMN, 1979, p.251).
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