The London-based dealer Simon Dickinson has been cleared of negligence over the sale of La Bénédicité (saying grace, 1744) by the 18th-century French artist Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin. In a ruling ...

An unknown buyer set a record for Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin when they paid €24.4 million ($26.8 million) for the still life The Basket of Wild Strawberries (1761) in March, only to have the French ...

Fashion and art are familiar bedfellows but relevance of fashion at London contemporary art showcase has grown in past decade. I love everything about autumn – the cool, crisp air, the warm sweaters, ...

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 thoughts ...

Mark Hudson on why the painter of Boy Building a House of Cards,Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, remains important today . By Mark Hudson 26 March 2012 • 3:43pm Enigma variations: Chardin’s 'Boy Building ...

An aristocratic couple are embroiled in a High Court claim against an art dealer over the £1 million sale of a French “masterpiece” from their family collection which was later resold for millions ...

An art dealer who secured the £1 million sale of a French “masterpiece” from an aristocratic family’s collection which was later resold for millions more did not act negligently, a judge has ruled.

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I love everything about autumn – the cool, crisp air, the warm sweaters, the sense that the holiday season will soon arrive. But most of all, I love autumn food! In my humble opinion, no time of the ...

The dispute centres on a version of Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin’s Le Benedicite. Amanda Feilding, Countess of Wemyss and March, leaving the Rolls building in central London, amid a trial over her ...

Gagosian has done it again: produced another museum-quality show, this one devoted to images of artists’ studios, as recorded in photographs (on view at its uptown gallery) and in paintings (installed ...