A singing lesson in a French girls' boarding school, 19th century. A male tutor plays the piano while female students turn the pages of the score, sketch, embroider, etc. Books by pianists Muzio Clementi, Johann Baptist Cramer, etc. Un lecon de chant dans un pensionnat de demoiselles. Woodcut by Huyot from Paul Lacroix's Directoire, Consulat et Empire, (Directory, Consulate and Empire), Paris, 1884.

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