Saturday, October 26, 2024

Musical Subjects - III

François Gauzi
Young Woman at the Piano
1904
oil on canvas
Musée des Augustins de Toulouse

Gustave Caillebotte
The Piano Lesson
ca. 1879
oil on canvas
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris

Alfred-Émile-Léopold Stevens
Eva Gonzalès at the Piano
1879
oil on panel
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota

Aukusti Uotila
Interior
(copy of Canova sculpture against back wall)
1879
oil on canvas
Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki

Constantin Guys
Student and Music Teacher with Sleeping Chaperone
cs. 1840
drawing
Yale University Art Gallery

Henry Fuseli
Reclining Woman with another making Music
(pastiche of Titian's Venus with Organ Player)
ca. 1799-1800
oil on canvas
Kunstmuseum, Basel

Jan Miense Molenaer
Figures with a Virginal
1634
oil on panel
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Jan Miense Molenaer
Woman playing the Virginal
ca. 1637
oil on panel
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Adèle Romany
Portrait of Joseph-Dominique Fabry-Garat
playing a Lyre-Guitar

ca. 1808
oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Jean-Marc Nattier
Terpsichore, Muse of Music and Dance
ca. 1739
oil on canvas
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(California Palace of the Legion of Honor)

Johann Septimius von Joerger
Seated Mandolin Player
1642
drawing
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Anselm Feuerbach
Mandolin Player
1865
oil on canvas
Hamburger Kunsthalle

Jacopo Bassano
Portrait of a Young Man with a Mandolin
ca. 1537
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Monogrammist CVR
Singing Boy
ca. 1650-1700
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Paulus Moreelse
Shepherdess Singing with Shepherd Piping
ca. 1630
oil on canvas
Kunstmuseum, Basel

Jan Steen
As the Old Sing, so Pipe the Young
ca. 1668-70
oil on canvas
Mauritshuis, The Hague

Out of sight is out of mind:
Long have man and woman-kind,
Heavy of will and light of mood,
Taken away our wheaten food,
Taken away our Altar stone;
Hail and rain and thunder alone,
And red hearts we turn to grey,
Are true till Time gutter away.

– W.B. Yeats (1895)