CHARDIN, Jean-Baptiste-Sim?on (b. 1699, Paris, d. 1779, Paris) La Gouvernante (The Governess) 1739 Oil on canvas, 47 x 38 cm National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa There are rarely men in Chardin's domestic interiors, and where boys occur they usually require - if only by implication ? to be disciplined. It is mothers and quasi-maternal women who are prominent: preparing meals and children for school or church, and for household tasks. Part of the power of the subtly-painted La Gouvernante comes from the sense of everything in it being tightly organized, both aesthetically and morally. The gouve
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CHARDIN, Jean-Baptiste-Sim?on (b. 1699, Paris, d. 1779, Paris) La Gouvernante (The Governess) 1739 Oil on canvas, 47 x 38 cm National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa There are rarely men in Chardin's domestic interiors, and where boys occur they usually require - if only by implication ? to be disciplined. It is mothers and quasi-maternal women who are prominent: preparing meals and children for school or church, and for household tasks. Part of the power of the subtly-painted La Gouvernante comes from the sense of everything in it being tightly organized, both aesthetically and morally. The gouve