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Softcover. Condition: VG (as new). Brown and blue and Illus. wraps with white lettering; 144 pp. with 86 color and bw figures. The catalogue to accompany the exhibition held at The Wallace Collection, London and The Hunterian, Glasgow, in 2008. The book explores a new manner of French genre painting by comparing "Lady taking Tea" by Jean-Simeon Chardin and "Woman on a Daybed" by Francois Boucher. "This provides an opportunity to address undercurrent themes of social history such as the artists' attitudes to fashion, interior decoration and the consumption of tea -- a pastime influenced by new trade links with China." (back cover).…