The Chardin Copyist

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A boy is seen from the side sitting at a table and drawing from a picture placed upright in front of him

The Chardin copyist.

Artist

Name:: Helleu, Paul
Dates:: 1859-1927
Country:: France

Illustration

Subject:: People
Format:: Landscape (wider)
Source:: Robarts Library, Internet Archive

Book

Title:: Paul Helleu, peintre et graveur
Author:: Montesquiou, Robert de
Publisher:: Paris: Henri Floury, 1913
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Description:

A boy is seen from the side, sitting at a table and drawing with great concentration from a picture placed upright in front of him. The image the boy is copying is an etching by Jean-Jacques Flipart, after a painting by Jean-Baptiste Chardin titled Young Student Drawing (Le jeune élève dessinant).

The caption reads in the original French: Le copiste de Chardin.

Images courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington and the Kimbell Art Museum, respectively.

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