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;
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)