Woman Peeling Turnips by Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin was created in 1738. The painting is in Alte Pinakothek, München. The size of the work is 45,7 x 36,6 cm and is made of oil on canvas.

About the Work

A kitchen maid pauses for a moment while peeling and daydreams. Chardin picks up on seventeenth-century Netherlandish kitchen scenes here but refrains from making any obviously moral statement. His intricate painterly style gives the objects an unusual life of their own.

About the Artist

Jean Siméon Chardin (1699 – December 6, 1779) was an 18th-century French painter. He is considered a master of still life, and is also noted for his genre paintings which depict kitchen maids, children, and domestic activities. Carefully balanced composition, soft diffusion of light, and granular impasto characterize his work.

Chardin was born in Paris, the son of a cabinetmaker, and rarely left the city. He lived on the Left Bank near Saint-Sulpice until 1757, when Louis XV granted him a studio and living quarters in the Louvre.

Chardin entered into a marriage contract with Marguerite Saintard in 1723, whom he did not marry until 1731. He served apprenticeships with the history painters Pierre-Jacques Cazes and Noël-Nicolas Coypel, and in 1724 became a master in the Académie de Saint-Luc. Read more in Wikipedia

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