Teacher Reads with Child Antique Art Print ~ Perrault

Antique Goupil & Cie. photogravure art print from the picture by Leon Perrault.

Printed on mid-weight ivory colored stock. Reverse side is blank.

Title: The Reading Lesson

Publication: The Masterpieces of French Art

Publication Year: 1883

Approximate Page Size (in inches): 11 x 14

Approximate Image Size (in inches): 7¼ x 9¼

Condition: Image area is very clean. Some light to moderate foxing in margin area. Atticpaper.com watermark does not appear on actual print.

This little scholar evidently is not very far advanced in the art of reading. The progress of a simple nursery tale has been arrested by a hard word -- one of not less than four or five letters, perhaps. The maternal instructor judiciously refrains from pronouncing the word, but seeks rather to encourage the child to master it herself. And how bravely her tender pupil responds! What an effort at mental concentration is here! Why, even Newton, when reflecting upon the falling apple, was not more absorbed in his grand problem than is this infant in hers. - Happy the child that is blessed with a loving, patient, faithful instructor. No employment has greater dignity or tells more directly on the welfare of society than the careful instruction of the young. This picture, so simple and so truthful, is not only delightful to the eye, but is full of sweet and salutary lessons. Every home is made better by the presence of such a picture. In the expression of child-character Perrault has had few superiors. The present work is but one of his numerous successes in this department of art.