Jean-Siméon Chardin
The Good Education

CultureFrench
Titles
  • The Good Education
Datec. 1753
PlaceFrance
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsCanvas: 16 5/16 × 18 5/8 in. (41.4 × 47.3 cm)
Frame: 25 3/8 × 26 5/8 × 4 1/8in. (64.5 × 67.6 × 10.5cm)

Credit LineGift in memory of George R. Brown by his wife and children
Object number85.18
Non exposé

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ProvenanceAnge Laurent de la Live de Jully (1725-1779) in 1753; his sale, Paris, March 5 - May 2-14, 1770, lot 97; boileau (?); Count Gustave-Adolphe Sparre (1746-1794); Kulla Gunnarstorp Castle, Sweden; by inheritance to Count Carl de Greer, Wanås, Sweden, 1837; by inheritance to his niece,Countess Elizabeth Wachtmeister, Wanås Castle, 1855; by descent until 1983; [Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London]; gift in memory of George R. Brown by his wife and children in 1983.
Exhibition HistorySalon, Paris, 1753.

"Liljevalchs, Fransk Konst i svensk privat ago," Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden, 1926.

"Fem sekler Fransk Konst," Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden, 1958.

"Chardin," Grand Palais, Paris; Cleveland Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1979.

Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, April 28–August 1987.

"Intimate Encounters: Love and Domesticity in Eighteenth-Century France," Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 4, 1997–January 4, 1998; Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, February 14–May 8, 1998; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, May 31–August 23, 1998.

“Masterpieces of European Painting from the 15th to 20th Centuries from The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation," The Museum of Art, Ehime, Matsuyama, Japan, April 13–May 30, 1999; Chiba Prefectural Art Museum, Japan, June 5–July 11, 1999; Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu, Japan, July 17–August 22, 1999; Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan, August 27–October 3, 1999.

"Claude Lorrain: A Tercentenary Exhibition," National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, October 17, 1982

"Life & Luxury: The Art of Living in Eighteenth-Century Paris," The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, April 26–August 7, 2011; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, September 18–December 11, 2011.

"Jean Simeon Chardin," Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo, September 8, 2012–January 6, 2013.

"L'Art Et L'Enfant: Chefs-d’œuvre de la peinture française: Cézanne, Chardin, Corot, Manet, Monet, Matisse, Renoir, Picasso...," Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, March 10–July 3, 2016.

"America Collects Eighteenth-Century French Painting," National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 21–August 20, 2017.

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