Title

'Grace' or 'Le Bénédicité' (French title), c1740. Artist: Jean-Simeon Chardin.

Caption

'Grace' or 'Le Benedicite' (French title), c1740. Interior scene showing a mother laying the table for a meal. She instructs her children to say their grace before eating. Original painting found at the Louvre, Paris. From World Famous Paintings edited by J Grieg Pirie [W.& G. Foyle Ltd., London, 1938.]
The Print Collector collection

Date

1740

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C66_161

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

66,2Mb (5,8Mb) / 14,3in x 18,0in / 4296 x 5388 (300dpi)

Keywords

food female people child children girl girls interior indoors job family sitting daughter arts grace day art occupation preparation color colour mother table chair motherhood century Louvre profession inside parenting manners furniture concept tablecloth etiquette behaviour mealtime gratitude art gallery mum publication rococo publisher 18th century Eighteenth Century The Print Collector portrait Jean-Simeon Chardin Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin Jean-Siméon Chardin Rococo era Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin Chardin Jean-Simeon Chardin Jean-Siméon W&G Foyle World Famous Paintings Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin portrait