# School for Girls

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## Artwork

- Artist: [MERCIER, Philip](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mercier-philip-r42398ac9a4025a>)
- Date: 1701-1750
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 102 x 128 cm

## Commentary

There is a pendant to this picture entitled School for Boys. These two pictures were significant examples of the type of large scale genre compositions with which Mercier experimented in his English years.

## Related artworks

- [Elegant Couples Conversing](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mercier-philip-r42398ac9a4025a/elegant-couples-conversing-rcf0cdaecb5651c>)
- [The Drawing Lesson](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mercier-philip-r42398ac9a4025a/the-drawing-lesson-r6fda8166e5f00c>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)