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Still Life with Cherries and Turnips

c. 1760
Attributed to Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (French, 1699–1779)

"Ah Chardin," wrote the philosopher Denis Diderot, "what you grind on your palette is not this color or that . . . but the very substance of things. You dip your brush in air and light and spread them on your canvas." Diderot’s praise for Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin atmospheric still lifes might easily be applied to this work, one of a pair produced around 1760.


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