Enlightenment

Chardin, Greuze and the Salon

Kitchens, children and family drama, 1728–1796

Alongside the boudoir pictures, painters turned to ordinary rooms and people: kitchen still life, children at play, a servant, and family scenes from a betrothal to a death.

• Still life and genre in the Academy's ranking
• Quiet figures absorbed in small tasks
• Pastel alongside oil
• Moral scenes from family life
• Ruin painting at the Louvre

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