# The Youth with a Violin [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CHARDIN, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 67 x 74 cm ## Commentary In 1733 Chardin begins to return to the themes and formulas of the popular genre scenes of seventeenth-century Dutch painting prized by Parisian connoisseurs. Applying their realistic treatment to the bourgeois interiors of his time, Chardin depicts such everyday occupations as household chores and the upbringing of children. The moral character of these themes, in praise of the simple family life, contributed to dignifying the genre. ## Related artworks - [A Child with a Teetotum]() - [A "Lean Diet" with Cooking Utensils]() - [A Vase of Flowers]() - [Attributes of Music]() - [Basket of Peaches, with Walnuts, Knife and Glass of Wine]() - [Draughtsman]() - [Fruit, Jug, and a Glass]() - [Game Still-Life with Hunting Dog]() - [Girl with Racket and Shuttlecock]() - [Grapes and Pomegranates]() - ['La Brioche' \(Cake\)]() - [La Gouvernante \(The Governess\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()