# Soap Bubbles, in Jean Siméon Chardin

Jean Siméon Chardin painted this in about 1733–34, aged about 34. It is now at The Met in New York.

Our note:

> A young man leans out over a window ledge, carefully blowing a large, glistening bubble through a straw, while a small child peers over the sill to watch; a glass of soapy water stands beside him.

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## The work

- Date: ca. 1733–34
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 24 x 24 7/8 in. (61 x 63.2 cm)
- Type: Paintings
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 49.24
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Jean Siméon Chardin](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/jean-simeon-chardin), French, 1699–1779

Chardin spent his life in Paris and was received into the Academy in 1728 as a painter of animals and fruit.

3 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [Jean Siméon Chardin's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-jean-simeon-chardin?hang=748) (8 works)
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