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8-7/8 x 13 in. (image) 12-1/8 x 15-1/2 in. (sheet)
Accession NumberMcKee Fine Arts Purchae Fund
CopyrightPrints, Drawings, and Photographs
Color Palettede Boissieu - Perez 80 iv/iv (Galerie Paul Prouté SA, Paris, France); purchased by the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 1998
De Boissieu’s image is an atmospheric recollection of a rural schoolroom in the era before the French Revolution of 1789.
His watercolor is a study for the eleven less-than-studious schoolboys who appear in the background of the etching.
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