Taking time
Subtitle: Chardin's Boy building a house of cards and other paintings
By: Juliet Carey ; with essays by Pauline Prévost-Marcilhacy, Pierre Rosenberg and Katie Scott
Contributors: Prévost-Marcilhacy, Pauline; Rosenberg, Pierre; Scott, Katie, 1958-
Publisher: Paul Holberton Pub.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781907372339
Subjects: French Painting; Criticism and interpretation; Exhibitions
Description: "This book celebrates the recent acquisition for Waddesdon Manor of Jean-Siméon Chardin's early masterpiece, Boy building a House of Cards. The Waddesdon painting is one of four versions of the subject by this great eighteenth-century French master, and is here compared with the other three and with further related paintings and engravings. This close study enables the reader to explore Chardin's treatment of the theme of absorption in work and play, childhood and adolescence."--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: "Published to accompany the exhibition: Talking time : Chardin's Boy building a House of Cards and other paintings, 28 March--15 July 2012 at Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.