The Laundress (Chardin)
| The Laundress | |
|---|---|
| French: Une petite femme s'occupant à savonner | |
 The Hermitage version. | |
| Artist | Jean Siméon Chardin[1] |
| Year | 1733[2] |
| Location | Hermitage Museum Nationalmuseum |
The Laundress (French: La Blanchisseuse[3]) or A Young Girl Doing Laundry (Une petite femme s'occupant à savonner) is the title of three works by the French artist Jean Siméon Chardin.[4]
Versions
Signed in the top left, the prime version of The Laundress dates to between 1733 and 1740.[5] It formed part of the Crozat collection, which was mostly acquired by Catherine II of Russia on the advice of Denis Diderot in 1772, and so is now in the Hermitage Museum. It measures 38 by 48 cm.
A second version is now in the Nationalmuseum Stockholm; it is smaller (37.5 by 42.5 cm) and is signed in the centre on the stool under the tub. That version was exhibited at the 1737 Paris Salon and engraved by Cochin in 1739.
A third version (35 by 41 cm) was in the Henri de Rothschild collection but was destroyed in the Second World War.
References
- ^ Colin B. Bailey (2000). Jean-Baptiste Greuze: The Laundress. Getty Publications. pp. 35–. ISBN 978-0-89236-564-7.
- ^ Rose-Marie Hagen; Rainer Hagen (2003). What Great Paintings Say. Taschen. pp. 275–. ISBN 978-3-8228-1372-0.
- ^ John Murray (1927). Murray's Handbook of Travel-talk: Being a Collection of Questions, Phrases, and Vocabularies in English, French, German, & Italian. Macmillan.
- ^ Katharine Baetjer (15 April 2019). French Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art from the Early Eighteenth Century through the Revolution. Metropolitan Museum of Art. pp. 130–. ISBN 978-1-58839-661-7.
- ^ Elisabeth Foucart-Walter; Pierre Rosenberg (1988). The Painted Cat: The Cat in Western Painting from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Century. Random House Incorporated. ISBN 978-0-8478-0995-0.
Bibliography
- Nemilova, I. S. (1982). Французская живопись XVIII века в Эрмитаже (La peinture française du XVIIIe siècle, Musée de L’Ermitage: catalogue raisonné) [French Painting of the 18th centrty in the Hermitage Museum: Scientific Catalogue]. Leningrad: Iskusstvo. pp. 295–296.
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