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Saying Grace (Le Bénédicité)
1725–1750 · huile sur toile (oil on canvas) · Musée du Louvre, Paris
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The smaller girl has her hands together and her eyes on her mother, and she is saying it; the older one, on the far side of the table, waits with her spoon. The mother bends to set down the soup with a look that is half listening, half checking. Under the table a drum has been put down for later. Chardin showed the first Bénédicité at the Salon of 1740 and gave it to Louis XV, and the Louvre records this canvas as his own replica of it, painted between 1725 and 1750 and left to the museum by Dr Louis La Caze in 1869; it hangs now at Louvre-Lens. Nothing holy is in the room but the prayer. The striped chairs, the pewter, the warming pan by the wall are the whole of the setting, and the grace before meals is treated as what it was in that house, the most ordinary thing in the day. Which is the point of grace.
Sources: Musée du Louvre, 'Le Bénédicité', MI 1031; read 2026-10-15. · Musée du Louvre, 'Le Bénédicité', INV 3202; read 2026-10-15.
The Record
The original, as its museum records it
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The file this print is made from
| Artist | Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (French, 1699–1779) |
|---|---|
| Date | 1725–1750 |
| Museum | Musée du Louvre, Paris |
| Accession | MI 1031 |
| Medium | huile sur toile (oil on canvas) |
| Dimensions | Hauteur : 0,495 m ; Largeur : 0,41 m |
| Sheet sizes | 8×10 in, 11×14 in, 16×20 in, 18×24 in, 32×48 in |
| Held by | Musée du Louvre, Paris · MI 1031 the museum’s record |
|---|---|
| Source file | Wikimedia Commons · Le Bénédicité de Jean Siméon Chardin (cropped).jpg |
| Licence | Public domain |
| Master | 3,903 × 4,440 px, the file our printer receives |
| Chain | Taken from Wikimedia Commons on 15 October 2026; cut to the painted field; held as our print master. |
The sheets
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 4,440 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.