Chardin’s humble scenes deal with simple, everyday…

Chardin’s humble scenes deal with simple, everyday activities, yet they will also function as a source of documentary information about a level of French society not hitherto considered a worthy subject for painting.

The pictures are noteworthy for their formal structure and pictorial harmony.

Chardin has said about painting, "Who said one paints with colors? One employs colors, but one paints with feeling." (Johnson, Paul. Art: A New History, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003, p. 414.)