The Washerwoman Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin (1699-1779)
Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin – The Washerwoman
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Painter: Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin
Location: National Museum (Nationalmuseum), Stockholm.
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Jean Baptiste Chardin painted many famous paintings, among them "The Laundresses," painted in 1737. In a dark room, only half illuminated by daylight, the foreground is painted in light and relatively bright colors. In the picture it is represented by a young washerwoman, a child, most likely her son, and a cat sitting with its paws tucked under it. The girl is engaged in the usual and mundane work - laundry.
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Description of Jean Baptiste Chardin’s painting The Laundresses
Jean Baptiste Chardin painted many famous paintings, among them "The Laundresses," painted in 1737.
In a dark room, only half illuminated by daylight, the foreground is painted in light and relatively bright colors. In the picture it is represented by a young washerwoman, a child, most likely her son, and a cat sitting with its paws tucked under it.
The girl is engaged in the usual and mundane work - laundry. Each of her actions has been repeated a hundred times already, and she does not pay attention to her task, but only looks out of the window with peaceful eyes, as if hoping to see some rapid change there. The simple and industrious girl also wants to escape from all the life that surrounds her, to change her modest and gloomy room for an admirable mansion. You can even see a little smile on her face, caused by all these fantasies.
The other characters in the picture are quite happy with what they have: the child is enjoying the activity his mother invented for him, blowing soap bubbles, and the cat is taking a quiet nap. Behind the door we see a second laundress hanging out the laundry, but we can only guess at her thoughts.
As befits a true artist, Chardin shows particular attention to all the details of the painting, which allow us to convey all the gravity of life of ordinary people: the wooden laundry tank, the brown and black copper basin standing on the floor, the mortar - all this he draws with the care with which the most picturesque portraits were painted.
Jean Baptiste Chardin was a man who loved to work in earnest, without guile. Purposefulness, perseverance, combined with the talent he possessed by nature, allowed him to achieve great heights in the art world. Thus, in this painting, he depicted just one day in the life of ordinary people, watching which any viewer will sympathize with the plight of the mother, smile indulgently when looking at the child, and plunge into the depth of the picture with all these household objects, which, as alive as possible, convey the atmosphere of the drawing.
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Perhaps it’s a painting of a woman and a child in an old - fashioned room with a cat on the floor.