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OCR: Chardin, Jean Bap tiste Simeon: 1699 1779 Eighteenth- rentury French painter who epoch of Baroque rvi- val. returned to Dutch genre and still lifes. Although Char din's pictures were actually purchased by European aristo- crats their visual style ran counter to the artifice and excess f upper-class favorites like Francois Boucher and Jear Fragonard In Van Gogh's day, the Goncourt brothers gued that Chardin was actually "the painter of the bour- geoisie middle-class artist Van Gogh who was an avid follower af fthe Goncourts writing ua art emulated Chardin 's palette and genre subjects. Indeed during his Dutch period Van Gogh aspired to replicate Chardin's subdued grav tanes and browns century revi Goncour peoisie tvic tones