affluent family of artisans
with history painter Pierre-Jacques Cazes (1718-20); with history painter Nicolas Coypel (1720-21); Académie Royale
1728 – becomes Académie Royale full member (still life painter) based on acceptance of The Buffet (Louvre, Paris) and The Ray-fish (Louvre)
-admired by Denis Diderot
Rome
The Governess, 1739 (Tatton Park, Cheshire)
Saying Grace, 1740 (Louvre)
Self-Portrait, (Louvre)
Chardin, Jean-Baptiste. Soap Bubbles. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1990
Conisbee, Philip. Chardin. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press,1985
Dulau, Anne. Boucher & Chardin: Masters of Modern Manners. Exhibition catalogue. Glasgow: Hunterian, 2008
Rosenberg, Pierre.Chardin. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000