Kimbell Art Museum’s Chardin masterpiece and its original frame restored

The Kimbell Art Museum has returned Jean Siméon Chardin’s 1760 painting, The Cut Melon, to public view following a restoration of the artwork and its original frame.
FORT WORTH, TX—The Kimbell Art Museum announced that Jean Siméon Chardin’s The Cut Melon (1760) is back on view following conservation treatment of both the painting and its original frame. Chardin is […]
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