The Cut Melon,” a rare oval-shaped painting by the 18th-century French artist Jean Siméon Chardin, will hang on the Fort ...

The Texas museum was the underbidder on “The Cut Melon” last June at Christie's, but was ultimately able to acquire it ...

The Kimbell was outbid last year by an Italian investor who bought this painting for $26 million. But that wasn’t the end of ...

A still life by Jean-Siméon Chardin at the Frick is a portal to inner life Why is it that, when you wander through an art museum and come across a still life by Jean-Siméon Chardin (1699-1779 ...

The Kimbell Art Museum has acquired a rare 18th-century French painting previously caught at the center of a lawsuit between ...

Jean Siméon Chardin's 1760 painting The Cut Melon is officially headed to the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, after ...

Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin painted "The Scullery Maid" in 1738. She is scouring a long-handled saucepan, but it's not what she is doing that makes this picture wonderful, it is where her ...

A painting of a pile of strawberries by the 18th-century French artist Jean-Siméon Chardin fetched €24.4m (with fees) at Artcurial in Paris yesterday, setting an auction record for the artist.

Jean-Antoine Houdon’s six-foot-tall sculpture Diana the Huntress (1776–95) spent much of the past five years in a box while construction workers hammered away nearby.

When you enter the first room of the Chardin exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the large still-life painting When you enter the first room of the Chardin exhibition at the Metropolitan ...