First Steps ca. 1820-25 Franz Ludwig Catel German The theme of a childs first steps was a popular subject of genre paintings in the uncertain years following the French Revolution, owing largely to its reassuring message of continuity. Catel, who studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, would also have been familiar with the related allegory of the Ages of Man, the subject of a major Salon painting by François Gérard (1808; Musée Condé, Chantilly). The present work shares the Italian setting of Gérards but updates its antique dress by depicting a contemporary peasant family.. First Steps. Franz Ludwig Catel (German, Berlin 1778-1856 Rome). ca. 1820-25. Oil on canvas. Paintings

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First Steps ca. 1820-25 Franz Ludwig Catel German The theme of a childs first steps was a popular subject of genre paintings in the uncertain years following the French Revolution, owing largely to its reassuring message of continuity. Catel, who studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, would also have been familiar with the related allegory of the Ages of Man, the subject of a major Salon painting by François Gérard (1808; Musée Condé, Chantilly). The present work shares the Italian setting of Gérards but updates its antique dress by depicting a contemporary peasant family.. First Steps. Franz Ludwig Catel (German, Berlin 1778-1856 Rome). ca. 1820-25. Oil on canvas. Paintings

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