Artist: Charles Cres (French, 1850–1907 or 1908)
Title: The Cadets’ Visit to the Mother Superior
Medium: Antique heliogravure on heavy wove paper after the original by a Master Engraver.
Signature: Signed and dated in the plate, lower right.
Dimensions: Image Size 6 3/8 x 9 7/8 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 15 x 19 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
The young men are students in a French military academy , and, according to custom, at the end of the year the winner of the first prize formally presents it to the Mother Superior of the hospital, in the presence of the Sisters and of his classmates, who have borne him in triumph thither.