Artist: Chardin Subject: People Style: Traditional Product Type: Gallery-Wrapped Canvas Art Made in USA This ready to hang, gallery-wrapped art piece features a man leaning over a window sill. Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin, born 1699 and died 1779, was a 18th century French painter. One of the great and most praised still life painters of the time. He also has a mix of genre paintings as well that separate his work from one another. Giclee (jee-clay) is an advanced printmaking process for creating high quality fine art reproductions. The attainable excellence that Giclee printmaking affords makes the reproduction virtually indistinguishable from the original piece. The result is wide acceptance of Giclee by galleries, museums, and private collectors. Gallery wrap is a method of stretching an artist's canvas so that the canvas wraps around the sides and is secured a hidden, wooden frame. This method of stretching and preparing a canvas allows for a frameless presentation of the finished painting.