Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin was a famous 18th century French artist who was known as a master of still-life painting.
His work had little in common with the Rococo art that was very popular at the time in France. He preferred simple yet beautifully textured still lifes, domestic interiors and genre paintings. Because of his chosen subject matter and style his art more closely resembled Dutch Still life or more specifically the 17th-century Netherlandish vanitas works. Vanitas still lifes were a common genre in Netherlandish art of the 16th and 17th centuries.
