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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Children indulging in mischievous behaviour was a popular theme. Here, while the teacher is away from the schoolroom, only a few children remain at their desks while five children play marbles with a bunch of grapes and another child sits on the teacher's desk with his fingers to his nose. Another child is peeping through the partly opened door. Four children outside peer through the window into the classroom.Théophile Emmanuel Duverger was self-taught, learning primarily by studying in museums and galleries. He is known for his genre paintings and portraits. He often portrayed children in schoolrooms or nurseries. His paintings were influenced influenced by the Dutch genre paintings of the seventeenth century and can be seen as typical example of realist movement in nineteenth-century France. | Subjects: | interior; everyday life; figure | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Duverger, Théophile Emmanuel (French painter, 1821-after 1882) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8448... | Go to resource |
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