Young Student Drawing, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
Oil on panel, roughly 8 x 7 inches (21 x 17 cm). Link is to zoomable version on Google Art project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth.
French 18th century master Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin was noted for his still life paintings, and also for his genre paintings of figures in interiors (which also included still life objects).
Though not in keeping with the majority of his other work, this subject of a student drawing is a theme Chardin returned to in multiple works.
This painting is small, and in close up detail crops reveals itself as wonderfully painterly.
