"children In Class", Oil Painting On Canvas

Oil painting on canvas, depicting a scene of children in a classroom, a work with caricatured and ironic traits, where in the one room there is a crowd of children distracted by their games or intent on smoking or who are even writing on the walls, what could also be a signature, but which is not legible. Datable to the 19th century and probably of the Flemish or English school, this painting has a multitude of details and funny circumstances due to the different characterisations of the children, who in total number 34, to which are added the figure of the teacher who is reading, and a looming character with spectacles looking out of a window, and decidedly out of scale within the scope of the figures present.   Schooling in the 19th century was a very serious and heartfelt theme, here tackled with irony, but an attempt was already being made to propose widespread basic education, beyond economic and social conditions, and involving girls as well.

Work in first canvas and in good consevative condition.
Measure 52xx44cm canvas 80x60cm est . frame

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