Pianiste et joueurs de dames

Matisse, Henri (1869-1954)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1924
Height:
73.7 cm  (29 in.)
Width:
92.4 cm  (36 3/8 in.)
Framed: 96.5 x 115.2 x 6.6 cm ((38 x 45 3/8 x 2 5/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas
Place of creation:
Nice (France)

Additional titles

Pianist and checker players

Description

A young woman (Henriette Darricarrère)
playing the piano while two boys are absorbed in playing checkers.

People as subjects

Darricarrère, Henriette (born ca. 1901) (Musician)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Upright pianoforte [2311]

Musical works

illegible music notation
music on the piano

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Bibliographic references

Jiminez, Jill Berk and Joanna Banham, eds. Dictionary of artists' models (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001) 144-145.

Cowart, Jack and Dominique Fourcade. Henri Matisse: the early years in Nice, 1916-1930 (Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1986).

Notes

Henriette Darricarrère was Henri Matisse's favorite model from 1920 to 1927.

RIdIM record id

6142