Although the ‘Moyano Law’ of 1857 established equal rights to education, schooling remained differentiated by sexes throughout the nineteenth century, and girls continued to have separate classes where they were taught the duties "proper to their sex". Representations of these schools, with anecdotal scenes like Muñoz Lucena’s, were recurrent at the National Exhibitions, where the State acquired several of them regardless of whether they had been awarded a prize.

G. Navarro, Carlos, Invitadas. Fragmentos sobre mujeres, ideología y artes plásticas en España (1833-1931), Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, 2020, p.139 nº 5