Jean-Siméon Chardin
Soap Bubbles
c. 1733/3493 x 74.6 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left on windowsill in dark brown paint: J.S. Chardin
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Gift of Mrs. John W. Simpson
Literature
Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 427
Philip Conisbee, French paintings of the fifteenth through the eighteenth century, Washington; Princeton, N.J., 2009, nr. 12
Provenance
Probably Adolphe Eugéne Gabriel Roehn (1780-1867), Paris, by 1845
Laurent Laperlier (1805-1878), Paris and Mustapha, Algeria, by 1860
his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 11-13 April 1867, 1st day, nr. 10
purchased by Biesta
with Gimpel and Wildenstein, New York and Paris
sold 1905 to John Woodruff Simpson (1850-1920), New York
by inheritance to his widow, Katherine Seney Simpson (died 1943), New York
gift 1942 to NGA
Other works by Jean-Siméon Chardin
Soap Bubbles
c. 1733/34
c. 1733/34
Still Life with a Leg of Lamb
1730
1730
Still Life with a White Mug
c. 1764
c. 1764
The Attentive Nurse
1747
1747
The Kitchen Maid
1738
1738