Among the most admired still-life painters of all times, Chardin was undoubtedly the greatest of the eighteenth century.
Selected artworks
Market
Top 3 auction prices
1,495,047 $
1992
1992
2,200,000 $
1992
1992
4,002,500 $
2013
2013
Books on Chardin
Pierre Rosenberg and Florence Bruyant, Chardin, exh. cat., London, 2000.
Jonathan Crary, ‘The Camera Obscura and Its Subject’ in Techniques of the Observer, Cambridge and London, 1990.
Philip Conisbee, Chardin, Oxford, 1985.
Pierre Rosenberg, Tout l’Oeuvre Peint de Chardin, Paris, 1983.
Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, French Eighteenth-Century Painters: Watteau, Boucher, Chardin, La Tour, Greuze, Fragonard, 1880-2, trans. Robin Ironside, Ithaca, 1981.