We see the future author of "guillaume tell" in the workshop of the boilermaker in question, operating a bellows with one hand, while with the other he leans against the wall. From the nonchalant attitude of the apprentice, from his bored air, we realize that this profession is hardly to his liking. So the master is at this moment busy complaining about him to a traveling musician, probably his father, and certainly the conclusion is "that the kid will never be good for anything. " in the background, the figure of the wife appears to us with her expression of feminine indulgence; each of our four characters plays their role here with perfect naturalness; finally; all the accessories that clutter the forge, these old scrap iron, these cauldrons, these dented, patched pots, admirably complete the work of the painter, which as a whole, forms a scene represented with as much truth as wit. Date: 1881.
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