110 Jean-Siméon Chardin (French, 1699–1779) The Cellar Boy...

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Description: The Cellar Boy (Le garcon cabaretier)

TitleThe Cellar Boy (Le garcon cabaretier)

Creator nameChardin, Jean-Siméon

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1736–1738

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions18 × 14 5/8 in. (46 × 37.2 cm)

LocationHunterian Museum, Glasgow

http://collections.gla.ac.uk/#/details/ecatalogue/36446

Accession numberGLAHA 43507

SubjectsHousehold employees in artGenre painting, French

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Peter Black and Anne Dulau Beveridge

William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum

In the autumn of 1771, in a lecture to students at the Royal Academy of Arts, William Hunter demonstrated his awareness of the then-inflated prices of paintings in this comment on the art market: “A general taste for the Arts prevails; the best works of Artists are sought for...

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Peter Black and Anne Dulau Beveridge

PublisherYale Center for British Art

Related print edition pages: pp.274-287

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00250.015

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Chapter subject tags:Art--Collectors and collectingPortrait paintingGenre paintingPainting, BaroqueLandscape painting

III. Pictures and Ideas: Chardin's A Lady Taking Tea

Michael Baxandall

Patterns of Intention: On the Historical Explanation of Pictures

IN WHAT follows now I want to do several things which will lead to a different texture, a closer focus and a smaller grain. First I have to provide something that is questionable, in a sense and for reasons I shall be returning to later. Secondly, it is time to address a piece of detail. The account of Picasso in 1910 was very schematic and general: it had to be, because I was trying to block in a general scheme in relation to an already existing account of early Cubism. But art criticism …

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Michael Baxandall

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.74-104

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00091.006

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Chapter subject tags:Idea (Philosophy) in artLocke, John, 1632-1704Chardin, Jean Baptiste Siméon, 1699-1779Art and scienceVisual perceptionColor in artVision--ResearchCamper, Petrus, 1722-1789

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