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c. 1760

Still Life with Cherries and Turnips

"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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