Question

A subgenre of this genre called toebakje ("toe-BAHK-yeh") depicted smoking instruments and was popular in the Netherlands. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this genre of art depicting inanimate objects such as flowers, fruit, and coins.
ANSWER: still-lifes
[10m] Willem Claesz Heda made many works in the vanitas genre, paintings that remind the viewer of their mortality through elements known by this two-word term, such as skulls, rotting food, and extinguished candles.
ANSWER: memento mori
[10h] This 18th-century French artist found great success with still-life paintings such as Basket of Plums and The Ray. This artist also delighted the Salon with idealized domestic scenes like Saying Grace.
ANSWER: Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin
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