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1737 painting by Jean Siméon Chardin

Girl with Racket and Shuttlecock

Year	1737
Dimensions	82 cm (32 in) × 66 cm (26 in)
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Girl with a Racquet or Girl Playing with a Racquet is an oil-on-canvas painting of a young girl holding a racquet and shuttlecock by the French artist Jean Siméon Chardin. He exhibited it at the Paris Salon in 1737 as a pendant to The House of Cards (Washington) – he also exhibited Woman Playing in a Fountain and The Laundress (Stockholm) in the same Salon. It is now in the Uffizi in Florence, whose collections it entered in 1951.

References

Sergio Negrini, La Galería de los Uffizi de Florencia y sus pinturas, coll. Los Grandes Museos, Éditions Noguer, 1974, (ISBN 84-279-9203-3)

v t e Jean Siméon Chardin
Paintings	The Buffet (1728) The Ray (1728) Saying Grace (1733–34) The Laundress (1733–1740) The Young Schoolmistress (c. 1736) Girl with a Racquet (c.1737) Boy with a Spinning-Top (1738) The Kitchen Maid (1738} Saying Grace (1740) The House of Cards (c. 1740–1741) The Attributes of Music, the Arts and the Sciences (1764) The Attributes of Civilian and Military Music (1766)
Related	Pierre-Jacques Cazes (master) Noël-Nicolas Coypel (master) Baroque painting Rococo

Jean Siméon Chardin

Paintings

The Buffet (1728)
The Ray (1728)
Saying Grace (1733–34)
The Laundress (1733–1740)
The Young Schoolmistress (c. 1736)
Girl with a Racquet (c.1737)
Boy with a Spinning-Top (1738)
The Kitchen Maid (1738}
Saying Grace (1740)
The House of Cards (c. 1740–1741)
The Attributes of Music, the Arts and the Sciences (1764)
The Attributes of Civilian and Military Music (1766)

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