. Art in France. PARISIAN ART UNDER LOUIS XV AND LOUIS XVI. FIG. 563.—CHARDIX. THE SILVER GOBLET. (The LouNTe, Paris.) of exteme delicacy bysubtle gradations of col-our, and how to treatcommon things with asmuch respect as the heroesof antiquity. The eigh-teenth century was accord-ingly familiar with thepainting of still-life and ofdomestic scenes. Des-portes and Oudry were,indeed, excellent painters,but somewhat after themanner of Snyders andFyt, whose fish and gamepieces suggest the orgies of some fabled Gargantua; their picturescombine sincerity and dexterity in a very masterly fashion, and
. Art in France. PARISIAN ART UNDER LOUIS XV AND LOUIS XVI. FIG. 563.—CHARDIX. THE SILVER GOBLET. (The LouNTe, Paris.) of exteme delicacy bysubtle gradations of col-our, and how to treatcommon things with asmuch respect as the heroesof antiquity. The eigh-teenth century was accord-ingly familiar with thepainting of still-life and ofdomestic scenes. Des-portes and Oudry were,indeed, excellent painters,but somewhat after themanner of Snyders andFyt, whose fish and gamepieces suggest the orgies of some fabled Gargantua; their picturescombine sincerity and dexterity in a very masterly fashion, and theirrealism is occasionally relieved by touches of rhetoric. But there is a style which is less brilliant and more delicate in itsgradations; it is that of the Dutch masters, who by means of simplecolours intermingled with light and shade, expressed the intimatesentiment of an interior, and the familiar mystery of its atmosphere. These Dutch masters helpedChardin (1699-1779) todivine the poetry of smalldomestic objects. Like them,he was a modest craft
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