La leçon de piano

Matisse, Henri (1869-1954)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1923

Height:

65.0 cm  (25 9/16 in.)

Width:

81.0 cm  (31 7/8 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Place of creation:

Nice (France)

Additional titles

Description

A young female piano teacher (Henriette Darricarrère) playing the piano in the presence of two boys; one (Henriette's brother) is listening (standing behind the piano teacher), the other is sitting in an armchair and reading a book.

People as subjects

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

Iconclass

48C7211
musician training pupils, music-lesson

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Upright pianoforte [2311]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 2

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

6143