Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin The Drawer in the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin

Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin, Der Zeichner / The Drawer (1737) in the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin

The Gemäldegalerie’s collection of French paintings is relatively small, but Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin, Der Zeichner / The Drawer (1737), is a fine sample. It is one of two very similar versions by Chardin — the second is in the Louvre in Paris.

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