Still life after Chardin, after Chardin
I admire Chardin’s still life paintings greatly. Others have too. This is a copy I did of what I thought was a Chardin, but it turns out (according to the internet) to be a pastiche of Chardin, done by a ‘follower of Chardin.’
Now that I know that, I am spotting all sorts of things that suggest the painting was not done by Chardin. In particular, the perspective seems a bit ‘steep’ for a Chardin. He seems to have painted objects that were almost at eye level, but this picture was painted by someone sitting at a height well above the objects being painted. As always, I learned a lot from copying a good picture, and now I have learned a lot after finishing the copy and reflecting on it.
I originally did this painting to fit a secondhand frame from the Op Shop. A happy result.
It is hard to get a bottle symmetrical. Harder still to make bread look ‘bready’.
Frame was $2.50. Why pay more?