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TO: Deborah Barlow Sorry to post to the list, but I kept getting a "bad address" flag when I tried to email directly. There are at least two Chardin paintings of bubble-blowing, if I recall my art history prelim-cramming correctly. The World Painting Index confirms "Blowing Bubbles" reproduced in: Masterpieces of Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1970); and "Boy Blowing Soap Bubbles" in: Maillard, Robert--Masterpieces in the History of Painting (1961). Bubbles are a good symbol of transience, and bubble-blowing is the folly of emphasizing impermanent pleasures over the good of one's immortal soul, etc., etc. They show up in western art whenever that method of symbolic communication is popular. If you'd like to contact me off-list, I'll see what else I can find. Linda Duychak Reference Kohler Art Library Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison [log in to unmask]