Chardin spent his entire life in Paris. He studied at the Paris Academy of St. Luke, and then was admitted to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. In the

Chardin rarely turned to the genre of the portrait, and if he still portrayed someone – then only close friends and acquaintances. In addition, the artist almost never exhibited these

Fashion for paintings, and objects of decorative art with images of monkeys appeared in France in the late XVII century. Most often, the artists wrote monkeys dressed in a human

This picture Chardin showed in the Salon of 1741 under the title “Son of Monsieur Le Noir, amusing the construction of a house of cards.” “Monsieur Le Noir” was a