The piano lesson

Ablett, William Albert (1877-1936)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1903
Height:
137.2 cm  (54 in.)
Width:
97.8 cm  (38 1/2 in.)
Framed: 56 1/2 x 40 3/4 x 2 in. (143.5 x 103.5 x 5.1 cm)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

Description

A painting in a painted gilt-wood frame, depicting one woman seated at a piano with another woman standing next to her. The woman playing the piano is playing from a music book open on the music stand.

Iconclass

48C7333
pianoforte

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Pianoforte [2299]

Musical works

illegible music notation

RIdIM images


Image courtesy of the Driehaus Museum.

RIdIM record id

5304