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Does back to school signify a time of excitement for you – new stationary, pens, more friends more of the time, a few great teachers? Or is it a groan?

Either way, how have artists over the centuries captured the in-school experience?

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A School for Boys and Girls. ~ 1670. Jan Steen

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Jean Baptiste Vanmour. The First Day of School. 1720-1737

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Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller. After School. 1841

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Albert Anker. The School Exam. 1862

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François Bonvin. The Scholar. 1874

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Eduard Schulz-Briesen, The Young Artist – School Recess, 1875

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George Clausen. Schoolgirls. 1880

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Jean-Baptiste Jules Trayer.  A Breton Infants School. 1882

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Robert Harris. A Meeting of the School Trustees. 1885

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Paul Louis Martin des Amoignes. In the Classroom . 1886

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Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. At The School Door. 1897

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Max Silbert. Gesangsstunde in der Kinderschule in Holland. 1907

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William H. Johnson. Art Class. ~1939-40

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Header: Allan Rohan Crite. School’s Out. 1936