1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Chardin, Jean Siméon

CHARDIN, JEAN SIMÉON (1699–1779), French genre painter, was born in Paris, and studied under Pierre Jacques Cazes (1676–1754), the historical painter, and Noël Nicolas Coypel. He became famous for his still-life pictures and domestic interiors, which are well represented at the Louvre, and for figure-painting, as in his Le Bénédicité (1740).