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Elderly man telling a story to children in a rustic farmyard, with hens, a knitting girl and a woman nearby.

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Grandfather Telling a Story, Albert Anker (1884), Wikimedia Commons. Via artnap.com

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A painting titled Grandfather Telling a Story by Albert Anker, dated 1884, shows an elderly man in a cap and brown coat gesturing as he speaks to a group of children seated before a rustic wooden barn. A woman sits nearby with a bowl, a girl knits at the right, and a young girl carries a pail across the yard among hens and a rooster.

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