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Article: Madame Boucher and Madame Chardin.
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- Contemporary Review
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- September 22, 2008
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ART is not an ancillary to social history, which is why one is surprised that the current exhibition of the splendours of Boucher and Chardin at the Wallace Collection is designated Masters of Modern Manners, with some emphasis on which figures in their paintings drank coffee and which drank tea. Something is radically wrong with the present state of the Wallace Collection, particularly marked in the titles and direction of recent exhibitions there. That on the discerning patroness Mme de Pompadour was entitled 'The Art of Love' with giggly adolescent prurience, that on Francis Boucher was called 'Seductive Visions'. Since so many of the glories of the Wallace Collection ...
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