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Artist Profile
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
French
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1699–1779
Rococo
Realism
Also known as:
Chardin's quiet still lifes and domestic genre scenes—copper pots, dead rabbits, children at play—are studies in humble reality elevated to contemplative poetry through extraordinary painterly sensitivity. Admired by Diderot, Cézanne, and Matisse across three centuries, his works appear rarely at auction but command above $5 million when they do, prized for their timeless meditative quality.
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Top Results at Auction
Highest realized prices in the database
Still Life with a ray-fish, a basket of onions, eggs, cheese, a green jug and a copper pot, with a mortar and pestle on a stone ledge
USD 101K
Sotheby's
2021-01-22
Still life with a ray-fish, a basket of onions, eggs, cheese, a green jug and a copper pot, with a mortar and pestle on a stone ledge
USD 69K
Sotheby's
2014-06-05
The painting monkey
USD 52K
Sotheby's
2014-06-26
Journal du Voyage
USD 527
Ketterer Kunst
2005-05-23
Voyages du Chevalier Chardin, en Perse, et autres lieux de l'Orient
USD 345
Ketterer Kunst
2002-11-18
Curieuse Persian- und Ost-Indische Reisebeschreibung
USD 304
Ketterer Kunst
2005-05-23
Recent Auction Appearances
Latest lots to appear at auction
The Housekeeper
Sotheby's
2025-06-11
Still Life with a ray-fish, a basket of onions, eggs, cheese, a green jug and a copper pot, with a mortar and pestle on a stone ledge
USD 101K
Sotheby's
2021-01-22
The painting monkey
USD 52K
Sotheby's
2014-06-26
Still life with a ray-fish, a basket of onions, eggs, cheese, a green jug and a copper pot, with a mortar and pestle on a stone ledge
USD 69K
Sotheby's
2014-06-05
'Le Singe Antiquaire'
Sotheby's
2008-01-24
'Le Singe Peintre'
Sotheby's
2008-01-24