French School Late 18th Century Sv De Chardin Oil S/t Frame

French School of the end of the 18th or very beginning of the 19th century Follower of Jean Simeon CHARDIN Oil on canvas representing A scene of family life entitled "The laborious mother" A young mother teaches embroidery to her attentive little girl in a furnished and well-decorated bourgeois interior (screen, bronze appliques...) This canvas was presented at the Salon of 1740 and was offered to the king (Louis XV) by the artist, and kept in royal and then national collections until this day, it has been kept at the Louvre museum since 1793 inv 3201 In good general condition small accidents of time In a pretty palmette frame in gilded bous from the early 19th century Dimensions 55X47.5cm Dimensions chassis 46x37.5cm On the back stamp of Maison Alphonse Giroux supplier of canvases (And a handwritten note specifying that the painting was in the alcove of the ground floor bedroom at.... Provenance chateau de E....)