The music lesson 1890

Lepère, Auguste (1849–1918)

Item type:

drawing

Date of creation:

1890

Height:

17.6 cm  (6 15/16 in.)

Width:

10.1 cm  (4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

pen and gallnut ink and wash on cream laid paper

Description

This drawing presents two figures, seen from behind, seated at a piano: on the left, a woman points toward an open book on the music rack of an upright piano (merely suggested); to her right, a girl plays the music (implied by the active metronome atop the piano).

Iconclass

48C75
making music; musician with instrument
48C7333
pianoforte
48C738
accessories ~ music: metronome, music-stand, tuning-fork, etc.
48C7211
musician training pupils, music-lesson

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Upright pianoforte [2311]
Metronome

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

5971