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 cabinetmaker and close friend of Chardin. The plot of building a house of cards – one of the most popular in the genre painting of the XVIII century.
Suffice it to say that Sharden himself wrote three more paintings on the same topic. He, however, was stranger to the desire of most artists to “stuff” a picture of all sorts of symbols. In the house of cards he sees only a house of cards, children’s entertainment, helping him to create a lively and laid-back portrait of a boy engrossed in his occupation.
Similarly, we note that soap bubbles, blown out by the baby in the film “Laundress”, are not at all a symbol of idle time of forwarding. But a healthy view of the subject did not save Chardin from making his work meaningful, which the author did not invest in it. In 1743, an engraving from Sharden’s “Card House” came out with the following signature: “What is more reliable – your plans for the future or your house of cards?”
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