Saying Grace — Chardin
Reading an essential work in 18th-century French painting.
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3 min readNov 18, 2022
One of the significant characteristics of French painting throughout the 18th century was the search for extreme realism, a trend reinforced by the rise and fullness of the Enlightenment.
The Enlightenment was the great intellectual movement of the 18th century in France (also in England and Germany)…
