Madame Chardin

This portrait is the pendant of Chardin’s Self-Portrait with an Eyeshade. The two portraits were exhibited together at the salon of the Acad�mie Royale in 1775. Marguerite Pouget (1707-1791) was the artist’s second wife. Bereft of his first in 1735, he remarried this affluent widow in 1744, who helped him in his charge as treasurer of the Acad�mie and in maintaining his correspondence.