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Chardin entered into a marriage contract with Marguerite Saintard in 1723, whom he did not marry until 1731.

He served apprenticeships with the history painters Pierre-Jacques Cazes and Noël-Nicolas Coypel, and in 1724 became a master in the Académie de Saint-Luc.