At the organ

Lerolle, Henry (1848-1929)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1885
Height:
225.4 cm  (88 3/4 in.)
Width:
363.2 cm  (143 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

Additional titles

Organ rehearsal
A rehearsal in the choir loft

    Item location

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
    [Museum inv. no.: 87.8.12]

Description

Formerly called "The Organ Rehearsal" and "A Rehearsal in the Choir Loft". The painting was exhibited at the Salon in 1885. Set in the choir loft of the church of Saint-François-Xavier in Paris, it features members of Lerolle’s intimate circle, including his wife (bare-headed) and her sisters, in fashionable matching hats; his brother-in-law, composer Ernest Chausson, plays the organ (only console and upper part of seven pipes visible) and a woman sings from music (not visible).

People as subjects

Chausson, Ernest (1855-1899) (Composer as performer)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Organ [2266]

Musical works

illegible music notation

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

3616