The Young Schoolmistress

The Young Schoolmistress

Artist: Jean-Siméon Chardin (French, 1699 - 1779)

Original Dimensions: 24 1/4" x 26 1/4"

Location: National Gallery of Art, London

About Artwork: (About 1737) "A young child is being taught by an older girl, perhaps in her early teens, who is possibly an elder sister or another relation such as a cousin. Despite the picture’s title, this is a private lesson, probably taking place at home rather than at school. The younger child is most likely a boy, although we cannot be entirely sure. The children appear to be from a middle-class family, which is well provided for but not ostentatiously wealthy. They belong, perhaps, to the growing French bourgeoisie that particularly admired Chardin’s pictures, which they often knew and owned as engravings of the original paintings. This class particularly valued education, especially literacy, which was no longer confined to the nobility and professional classes. Although Chardin is extolling work and study over playful time-wasting, any moralising purpose to his painting is very understated. Instead, his attention is on a quiet moment of interaction between two individuals." - (National Gallery of Art, London)

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