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Stillness, focus, muses, and an anniversary

    April 15, 2012

“Taking Time: Chardin’s ‘Boy Building a House of Cards’ and Other Paintings”: The title is long, and the exhibition is small, but what an exhibition. Waddesdon Manor, a former Rothschild country estate now administered by Britain’s National Trust, recently acquired “Boy.” The show offers the first-ever public exhibition of four of the six paintings Jean-Simeon Chardin did that show the assembly of a house of cards.

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