The School Mistress
Medium
Engraving; first state of three
Dimensions
Sheet (trimmed): 8 7/16 × 8 1/16 in. (21.5 × 20.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Accession Number
53.600.515
Tags
ChildrenWomenStudentsTeachers
About the Artist
Jean Siméon Chardin|Louis Surugue|Bernard Lepicié · 1699–1779
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, born on November 2, 1699, in Paris to a cabinetmaker father who crafted billiard tables, grew up immersed in the city's artisan world on the Left Bank near Saint-Sulpice. His early training came through apprenticeships with the history painters Pierre-Jacques Cazes, where he honed academic drawing techniques, and Noël-Nicolas Coypel, whose assignment to copy a musket ...