The music lesson
Unknown (American)
- Cantor Arts Center (Stanford University)
Eadweard Muybridge[Museum inv. no.: 1972.9.4]Page 4 from the Brandenburg Album, 1867-1874.
Provenance: The album was possibly assembled by Flora Stone Muybridge (wife of Eadweard J. Muybridge), by 1875; acquired by an unknown shop, by c. 1952; sold to Melford F. Brandenburg, San Mateo, c. 1952; to San Mateo County Historical Association, 1971; to San Francisco Historical Society, c. 1971–72; to Stanford (by exchange) 1972
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Description
An elderly man with glasses is playing the flute for two young girls while seated on a chair and leaning forward with his left elbow on his left thigh. His curly, light-colored hair appears from under his liberty cap. He is wearing a long-sleeved shirt, vest, knee breeches covered by an apron, and slippers. The girls appear in left profile. The younger has short light hair and is holding up music against her chest for the man to read while playing. The older girl has long dark hair beneath a hat with a long ribbon coming out of the top. She is holding a doll in her left hand. There is a birdcage at the top left of the picture, a bag hanging in front of a small window above the girls' heads, and a book with some papers on a shelf behind the older girl.Iconclass
48C7211(+15)musician training pupils, music-lesson (+ artist at work with assistants or pupils)
Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)
Transverse flute [4093]RIdIM images
