Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin ( 2 November 1699 – 6 December 1779 ) was an 18th-century French painter.

Chardin was born in Paris, the son of a cabinetmaker, and rarely left the city.

In 1752 Chardin was granted a pension of 500 livres by Louis XV.

By 1770 Chardin was the ' Premier peintre du roi ', and his pension of 1, 400 livres was the highest in the Academy.

He was one of Henri Matisse's most admired painters ; as an art student Matisse made copies of four Chardin paintings in the Louvre.

In 2007, this bequest was the topic of the exhibition " 1869: Watteau, Chardin ... entrent au Louvre.

It was introduced by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 1922 in his Cosmogenesis.

Matisse was influenced by the works of earlier masters such as Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Nicolas Poussin, and Antoine Watteau, as well as by modern artists such as Édouard Manet, and by Japanese art.

Chardin was one of Matisse's most admired painters ; as an art student he made copies of four Chardin paintings in the Louvre.

Both men believed in evolution, but differed in its interpretation as de Chardin was a Christian, whilst Huxley was an unbeliever.

The work, reminiscent of Chardin and Le Nain, earned Courbet a gold medal and was purchased by the state.

Omega Point is a term coined by the French Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ( 1881 – 1955 ) to describe a maximum level of complexity and consciousness towards which he believed the universe was evolving.

Louis le Nain was an important exponent of genre painting in 17th-century France, where the 18th century would bring a heightened interest in the depiction of everyday life, whether through the romanticized paintings of Watteau and Fragonard, or the careful realism of Chardin.

Her work reveals the clear influence of Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, as well as 17th-century Dutch masters, whose work has been far more highly valued, but what made Vallayer-Coster ’ s style stand out against the other still life painters was her unique way of coalescing representational illusionism with decorative compositional structures.

was called Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin.

Finally, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin was able to create still life paintings that were considered to have the charm and beauty as to be placed alongside the best allegorical subjects.

Playwright William Goodhart was commissioned to write the screenplay, titled The Heretic, and based it around the theories of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ( the Jesuit paleontologist / archaeologist who inspired the character of Father Merrin when Blatty wrote The Exorcist ).

Jean Chardin ( 16 November 1643 – 5 January 1713 ), born Jean-Baptiste Chardin, and also known as Sir John Chardin, was a French jeweller and traveller whose ten-volume book The Travels of Sir John Chardin is regarded as one of the finest works of early Western scholarship on Persia and the Near East.

* January 5-Jean Chardin, travel writer ( born 1643 )

** Jean Chardin, travel writer ( born 1643 )

* April 10-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ ( born 1881 ), French-born paleontologist and philosopher.

* 1643 – Jean Chardin, French explorer ( d. 1703 )

* Jean Chardin, ( 1643 – 1713 ), French jeweller and traveller, author of The Travels of Sir John Chardin

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

Chardin found, however, that his Protestant faith cut him off from all hope of honors or advancement in his native France, and so he set out again for Persia in August 1671.

The family name Chardin may refer to either:

But instead of settling down in the family profession, the young Chardin set out with a Lyon merchant named Antoine Raisin in 1664 for Persia and India, partly on business and partly to gratify his own wanderlust.

This view has certain similarities to the concepts of Christogenesis advocated by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

Beginning in 1737 Chardin exhibited regularly at the Salon.

Lépicié and P .- L. Sugurue ), which brought Chardin income in the form of " what would now be called royalties ".

Chardin worked very slowly and he only painted slightly more than 200 pictures ( about four a year ) total.

Chardin frequently painted replicas of his compositions — especially his genre paintings, nearly all of which exist in multiple versions which in many cases are virtually indistinguishable.

Beginning with The Governess ( 1739, in the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa ), Chardin shifted his attention from working-class subjects to slightly more spacious scenes of bourgeoise life.

Chaim Soutine's still lifes looked to Chardin for inspiration, as did the paintings of Georges Braque, and later, Giorgio Morandi.

* ArtCyclopedia: Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin.

* Rosenberg, Pierre ( 2000 ), Chardin.

* Rosenberg, Pierre, and Florence Bruyant ( 2000 ), Chardin.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a paleontologist and geologist, believed that evolution unfolded from cell to organism to planet to solar system and ultimately the whole universe, as we humans see it from our limited perspective.

* Ruth Gordon as Dame Marjorie “ Maude ” Chardin, a 79-year-old free spirit who wears her hair in braids across her head like laurels.

The 583-item Collection La Caze donated in 1869, included works by Chardin ; Fragonard ; Rembrandt – such as Bathsheba at Her Bath – and Gilles by Watteau.

* 1699 – Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter ( d. 1779 )

While there are process theologies that are similar, but unrelated to the work of Whitehead ( such as Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ) the term is generally applied to the Whiteheadian / Hartshornean school.

Image: Chardin_pastel_selfportrait. jpg | Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin.