One of his works depicts a Cross of the Order of St. Michael and a small plaster statue of Pigalle scattered among objects on a table.
One of his works depicts a Cross of the Order of St. Michael and a small plaster statue of Pigalle scattered among objects on a table. That piece, Attributes of the Arts, was painted a few years before this artist's failing vision caused him to turn primarily to working in pastels. Though he had no students of his own, his influence on subsequent painters, such as Lucian Freud, who made multiple copies of his The Schoolmistress, may be attributed to his use of short parallel strokes that built up layers of pigment.His earliest success, depicting a bristling cat next to a gutted fish, The Ray, was followed by notable half length portraits of children including Girl with a Shuttlecock and a picture depicting Monsieur Lenoir's Son Building a House of Cards. For 10 points, identify this French artist renowned for his still lifes and genre works, including 1734's Young Man Blowing Bubbles.
One of his works depicts a Cross of the Order of St. Michael and a small plaster statue of Pigalle scattered among objects on a table.
Jean Baptiste Simeon {Chardin}