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 dress and engaged in some kind of human work.
Some of the “monkey” paintings belong to the brush of very famous masters. A few similar paintings were written by Chardin. These include the “Monkey-Artist”, which depicts a monkey trying to draw a broken statuette of the Amur. The monkey smiles slyly at the viewer, and as if he wants to say: “Wait, wait, now I will succeed.” And no worse than people. “
By the end of the XVIII century, with the approval in the painting of majestic academic style, fashion for paintings with humanized monkeys has passed.
Related Paintings
Artiste singe – Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin 
Portrait of the artist Joseph Aved by Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin 
Laundress by Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin 
Spies by Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin 
Still Life with a Hare by Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin 
Prayer before dinner by Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin 
House of Cards by Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin 
A Boy with a Yule by Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin