# The Curious One, in Paintings of the 19th century

Antoine Pierre Mongin painted this in 1823, aged 62. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> Here a young man uses a ladder to climb over a garden wall. The sign at his right translates into "School for Young Ladies under the Direction of Mrs. Wachsam"— wachsam being the German word for "watchful."

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: 1823
- Medium: oil on paper mounted to canvas
- Dimensions: Unframed: 43.5 x 34.6 cm (17 1/8 x 13 5/8 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1977.116
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Antoine Pierre Mongin](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/antoine-pierre-mongin), French, 1761–1827

1 works in the collection.

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