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  5. \paperw19995 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 This work was painted toward the end of ChardinÆs life when the artist, now an old man who was no longer offered public comm
  6. issions, retired into the seclusion of his home. He painted pictures that are permeated with a melancholic humanity that are some of the finest achievements of his entire career.