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The Absent Patient: A Meditation on a Chardin Painting

2000; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 9; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0963180100901026

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Francis Kane,

Historical and Scientific Studies

“Monsieur Chardin is obliged to keep his subject before his eyes.” That remark, by a long forgotten critic, was meant as a rebuke for the painter who did not work from sketches. Jean Simeon Chardin's counter, “We have to teach our eyes to look.”