The shift toward Enlightenment style or trends was gradual, but it certainly led to such significant works of art. For example, French painter Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin's “La Grace à table,” from 1740, reflected the move away from the playful/erotic interpretation of the classics, the Rococo style. The artwork, showing a woman setting up a dining table, with two children around and with all subjects in a natural, unaffected pose, reflects a style evolving towards a natural instead of an ornamental style, with more natural and simple subjects in nature. settings. In other words, such paintings show the extent to which Enlightenment artists were empiricists in the sense that they drew inspiration from