# The White Tablecloth, in The French eighteenth century

Jean Siméon Chardin painted this in about 1731–32, aged about 32. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Our note:

> A white cloth is thrown over a small table set with simple things, among them bread and a glass of wine, as if a meal has just been left.

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## The work

- Date: c. 1731–32
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 96.8 × 123.5 cm (38 1/8 × 48 5/16 in.); Framed: 126.7 × 154.4 × 14 cm (49 7/8 × 60 3/4 × 5 1/2 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1944.699
- 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.

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