The First Day of School

The First Day of School

SK-A-2005

A mother, accompanied by a group of women, brings her daughter to school for the first time. That the women are Turkish can be seen from their colourful clothing and the yellow slippers that only Muslims could wear, according to sumptuary laws (dress codes). A servant carries the girl’s embroidery frame. Needlework was a favourite pastime of women in affluent Turkish circles. Women held in slavery did the household chores.

Mirjam Shatanawi, 'On the In-Betweenness of the Paintings of Jean Baptiste Vanmour (1671–1737) at the Rijksmuseum' in: Susanne Leeb en Nina Samuel (red.), Museums, Transculturality, and the Nation-State, Independent Academic Publishing 2022, p. 123-158.

painter: Jean Baptiste Vanmour

c. 1720 - c. 1737

olieverf op doek

• weight 2.6 kg
• height 38.5 cm x width 53 cm

Public domain

• Mirjam Shatanawi, 'On the In-Betweenness of the Paintings of Jean Baptiste Vanmour (1671–1737) at the Rijksmuseum' in: Susanne Leeb en Nina Samuel (red.), Museums, Transculturality, and the Nation-State, Independent Academic Publishing 2022, p. 123-158.
• Renate Meijer en Günay Uslu, ‘Op bezoek bij de sultan : in de sporen van Cornelis Calkoen’, Rijksmuseum Kunstkrant 29 (2003) nr. 3, p. 4-7.

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https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200108066