Skip main navigation

Collections: European Art: The Reprimand

Want to add this object to a set? Please join the Posse, or log in.

The Reprimand

Frère found great success with his depictions of children, in rustic village interiors, engaged in various activities—school lessons, domestic chores, and games with siblings or friends. In both of these images, Frère presents his small subjects sympathetically, adopting their low vantage points. While the young girl diligently sits beside the stove with her ladle at the ready to stir the soup or stew, the boy in the schoolroom sulks after a scolding from his teacher, with the discarded book offering a clue to the cause of his punishment.

This text refers to these objects: 15.328; 32.814

Artist: Pierre-Édouard Frère, French, 1819-1886
Medium: Oil on panel
Place Made: Europe
Dates: 1863
Dimensions: 10 7/16 x 8 3/16 in. (26.5 x 20.8 cm)
Signature: Signed and dated lower left: "Ed. Frère. 1863."
Collections: European Art
Museum Location: This item is on view in Beaux-Arts Court, West, 3rd Floor
Accession Number: 32.814
Credit Line: Gift of the executors of the estate of Colonel Michael Friedsam
Image: Overall, 32.814.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

Tags

Separate each tag with a space: painting portrait.

Or join words together in one tag by using double quotes: "Brooklyn Museum."

Tags by Posse

lesliebee (5)
- child
- naughty
- painting
- grey
- boy
jamon (2)
- sulking
- classroom
ninakuriloff (2)
- interior
- 1863
E_Fretez (1)
- children
Egg (2)
- sulking
- schoolroom
AG3 (3)
- enfant
- garçon
- réprimande
lillie (1)
- bad little boy
Yvette (6)
- painting
- child
- poverty
- chair
- reprimand
- sad
erin_trying (3)
- child
- school
- punishment
spiceytaco (1)
- naughty

Favorites

This object has been favorited by 2 users.

Search the Collection

Location: 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York 11238-6052
Telephone: (718) 638-5000; TTY: (718) 399-8440
Admission: Suggested Contribution: $10; Students with Valid ID: $6; Adults 62 and over: $6; Members: Free; Children under 12: Free
Hours: Wednesday–Friday: 10 a.m.–5 p.m.; Saturday–Sunday: 11 a.m.–6 p.m. Get detailed hours
Subway: Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum Get detailed directions