I love everything about autumn – the cool, crisp air, the warm sweaters, the sense that the holiday season will soon arrive. But most of all, I love autumn food! In my humble opinion, no time of the ...

Last week, an unassuming still life by 18th-century French artist Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin sold for €24.4 million ($26.8 million) at an auction in Paris, smashing presale expectations and stunning ...

Bertolt Brecht wrote a poem against brand-newness. It begins (in Michael Hamburger's translation): "Of all works I prefer/ Those used and worn/ Copper vessels with dents and flattened rims/ Knives and ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Look closely at this 18th-century painting by Jean-Siméon Chardin. It is ...

An unknown buyer set a record for Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin when they paid €24.4 million ($26.8 million) for the still life The Basket of Wild Strawberries (1761) in March, only to have the French ...

Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin painted "The Scullery Maid" in 1738. She is scouring a long-handled saucepan, but it's not what she is doing that makes this picture wonderful, it is where her thoughts ...

The dispute centres on a version of Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin’s Le Benedicite. Amanda Feilding, Countess of Wemyss and March, leaving the Rolls building in central London, amid a trial over her ...

News About Jean Simeon Chardin Backed by an Expanding Collector Base, Old Masters Make a Quiet Comeback From $1.6B in 2014 to $803M in 2024, the Old Masters market is shrinking in value while ...