The Children's Class after Henri Jules Jean Geoffroy
date: label: date made
content: after 1889
notes: label: Description
content: This painted print of an original oil on canvas was made after 1889. The primary school age children are depicted seated on four long wooden benches, while a female teacher speaks with a student in the background. The students, all boys, are wearing smock-like uniforms. Such long benches and corresponding long tables were considered appropriate seating arrangements for young children.
label: Description
content: The original painting on which this print is based was by the French artist Henri Jules Jean Geoffrey (1853-1924). The original, which is hanging in the Ministere de l’Education Nationale in Paris, was painted in 1889. It was once assumed to be an American classroom because it had been hung next to an exhibition of the American School in Paris. The lithograph is attributed to Henry Kroger (1852-1918), a lithographer and artist active in Cincinnati and Cleveland 1870-at least 1900 but it is possible that it is a much later giclee print.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Home and Community Life: Education
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. Richard Lodish American School Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0095.077
label: accession number
content: 2017.0095
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0095.077
objectType: label: Object Name
content: giclee print
label: Object Name
content: giclee print, framed
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall (framed): 27 3/4 in x 45 1/2 in x 1 1/8 in; 70.485 cm x 115.57 cm x 2.8575 cm
label: Measurements
content: image (unframed): 23 3/4 in x 41 5/8 in; 60.325 cm x 105.7275 cm