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showcases an artist who was called the "great magician" for his still lifes and scenes of everyday activity. Jean Siméon Chardin was a member of the Royal Academy who painted figures, mostly women and children, engaged in simple acts of middle-class life. His treatment of the domestic world—contemplative and self-contained—was unprecedented in France and take on the quality of still life. (National Gallery of Art)
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