Volume 47, Number 13 · August 10, 2000
'Nature Itself'
By John Updike
Chardin 27-September 3, 2000.
an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June, Catalog of the exhibition edited by Pierre Rosenberg, with essays by Rosenberg, Colin B. Bailey, René Démoris, Marie-Laure de Rochebrune and Antoine Schnap
Royal Academy of Arts/Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 355 pp., $29.95 (paper)
Chardin: An Intimate Art
by Hélène Prigent, by Pierre Rosenberg
Abrams, 128 pp., $12.95 (paper)
The elegant Chardin show at the Met has been traveling through the turnover of centuries, beginning in Paris last fall, advancing to Düsseldorf and London, and arriving in the New World with an air of triumph. Chardin, whose life stretched from 1699 to 1779, has come to outrank, to modern taste, Watteau and Fragonard at the earlier, rococo end of his century and David at the other, neoclassical end. André Malraux, fifty years ago in The Voices of Silence, delivered this judgment:
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