The School Examination print after a painting by Benjamin Vautier
date: label: Date made
content: 1881
notes: label: Description
content: This 1881 print depicts a teacher and students on benches. The girls are in two rows facing the teacher and the boys are in two rows facing the viewer. Other girls are standing. It was common to separate male and female students during this period in both American and European schools.
label: Description
content: The original painting was by{Marc Louis} Benjamin Vautier (1829-1898), a Swiss genre painter and illustrator. He devoted himself to depicting peasant life in Switzerland and Germany. Vautier was also a professor at the Academy of Art in Dusseldorf.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Home and Community Life: Education
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dr. Richard Lodish American School Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.3049.106
label: nonaccession number
content: 2017.3049
label: catalog number
content: 2017.3049.106
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/4 in x 11 in; 23.495 cm x 27.94 cm
label: Measurements
content: image: 6 1/2 in x 9 1/8 in; 16.51 cm x 23.1775 cm