The Catechism Lesson – Louis Emile Adan – La Leçon De Catéchisme – Beautiful Catholic Art – Archival Quality– Gift for Catholic Mother

It just does our heart good to look on this scene. It is a lovely picture from a gentle time. Put this on a wall where you'd like to have love, peace, and beauty radiate with a Christian heart. The young nun is teaching the catechism to the children, who are mostly likely her family – siblings or cousins or nieces and nephews. I say this because she is wearing the big white cornette headpiece from St. Vincent de Paul's nuns, the Daughters of Charity, and they are devoted to the service of the poor, not private nannies for prosperous families with a large house.

In any event, our dear sister is knitting as she holds the attention of the children, telling them of the life of Jesus, who made us and loves us and saved our souls. Somehow my imagination can easily transport me to this idyllic place and feel the peace and beauty there. 

It is by Louis Emile Adan (1839 -1937), a French painter at a time when France had most of the world’s great painters. Adan was famous in his day. He exhibited at the Paris Salons from 1863 until 1937, winning numerous awards, and eventually being on the jury. (source: rehs.com)

His many paintings all have a kindness to them. In his early career, they are beautiful in an ordinary sense, often of fashionable young women, but in his later years, he painted mostly rural scenes and domestic scenes, like this one, where there is both beauty and spiritual serenity. He has several others we love as much as this one, and Good Lord willing, we will offer them to you someday.

** IMPORTANT ** THE IMAGE IS SMALLER THAN THE PAPER!  There is a blank border around the image. Approximately 0.5" wide for 5x7, 1.3" for 8.5x11, 1.6" for 11x14, and 1.75" for 13x17 and 16x20. For the two poster sizes, 18x24 and 24x36, we use 0.5" borders. We do this because the ratio of the rectangle of the art almost never matches the rectangle of the paper, and if it did happen to match one size, it would not match the others. Most fine art printers do this because otherwise they’d have to crop the art or warp it to make it fit the paper. The border looks good. It gives the picture a faux matted appearance.
There is almost always a little more border either on the left-right sides, or the top-bottom, depending on whether the ratio of the art is wider or taller than the paper. 

We make Archival Quality fine art prints: 
– Acid-free paper
– Archival pigments 
– Cardboard backer for sizes 11x14 and less. 
– Above story of the art
– Enclosed in a tight-fitting, crystal-clear bag.
– Rated to last 200+ years without fading if kept dry and out of the direct sun.

Thanks for your interest!

+JMJ+
Sue & John
Lincoln, Nebraska

“In order to communicate the message entrusted to her by Christ, the Church needs art.”
~ St. Pope John Paul II

Original image is out-of-copyright. Descriptive text and any image alterations (hence the whole new image) © by Sue Kouma Johnson – Classic Catholic Art.