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| Balthus The Card Game 1948-50 oil on canvas Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| Pierre Bonnard Nude in the Bath ca. 1940-46 oil on canvas Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
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| Jacques Cancaret Evening ca. 1900-1910 oil on canvas Musée Fesch, Ajaccio, Corsica |
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| Édouard Vuillard The Painter Ker-Xavier Roussel and his Daughter 1903 oil on canvas Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York |
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| François Bonvin The Cook ca. 1875 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Jean-Louis Forain Woman on a Chaise Longue ca. 1880-90 oil on canvas Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin La Serinette 1751 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
The serinette was a miniature French barrel organ, also called a bird-organ. The name derived from the French word serin (canary). As illustrated in Chardin's painting, the user cranked out a tune on the instrument in the presence of a pet singing-bird. After sufficient exposure, the bird was expected to learn the tune. The idiom seriner quelque chose à quelqu'un means to drum something into someone.
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| Henri Fantin-Latour The Reading 1870 oil on canvas Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon |
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| Louis-Léopold Boilly The Geography Lesson (Monsieur Gaudry and his Daughter) 1812 oil on canvas Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Henri Matisse The Painter's Family 1911 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Gérard de Lairesse Achilles playing the Lyre before Patroclus ca. 1675-80 oil on canvas Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
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| Le Nain Brothers Peasant Interior with Old Flute Player ca. 1642 oil on canvas Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Édouard Manet Interior at Arcachon 1871 oil on canvas Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Philippe Mercier The Music Party (Frederick, Prince of Wales with his Three Eldest Sisters) 1733 oil on canvas Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Berthe Morisot The Cheval Glass 1876 oil on canvas Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |