Download or read book Discoveries: Chardin written by Helene Prigent and published by . This book was released on 2000-05 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charming yet scholarly, this book explores the work of the French artist Jean Baptiste Sim̌on Chardin, who brought a breath of fresh air to 18th-century painting. His masterful sense of color and light filled his simple domestic interiors and delicate renderings of still lifes with a profound humanism. - Publisher.