As the Dutch had done before, some 18th-century French painters displayed a strong connection with the environments they depicted. This is particularly evident in the paintings of Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin (1699–1779), a reserved and quiet man whose fervent realism was almost a protest against purely formalist art. Much of his work is a glorification of … Continue reading French painting during the XVIII Century, III. The realism of Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin, other portraitists, ...
