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THE PIANO IN ART

The piano along with the teacher and the student is a natural subject for the artist. Enjoy this curated collection of pianos, piano teachers and students in vintage and modern painting.

Gustave Leonard de Jonghe "Woman at the Piano with Cockatoo" 1870

The Piano Tuner, Norman Rockwell, 1947

Gustave Leonard de Jonghe "Woman at the Piano with Cockatoo" 1870

The First Piano Lesson, Jules-Alexis Muenier (1863 - 1942)

"Now these are the high notes ..." Most legitimate, historic piano teaching methods are derived in some way from the work of Carl Czerny (1791-1857) a pupil of Beethoven. He was the first to number the fingers and create exercises based on that numbering, as well as create an entire library of teaching pieces.

Young Girl at the Piano, Jean Baptiste Armand Guillaumin, 1910

The Piano Lesson, Henri Matisse, 1916

This painting depicts the artist's son, Pierre Matisse at his piano lesson. This much studied painting is sometimes seen as Matisse’s answer to Picasso's Cubism. The composition contains symbolic opposing elements of the sensual and curvilinear perhaps suggestive of artistic expression and the angular harder lines representing discipline and order. Painted while his son was actually mobilized in the midst of WW I, Matisse did not know then if his son would return. The “teacher” shown in the background is actually another painting by Matisse titled, Woman on a High Stool, 1914. Note the metronome in the foreground. Also note the carved music stand which contains the brand of the piano, “PLEYEL” (read backwards from our point of view). Pierre Matisse would grow up to become a prominent art dealer in New York.

Museum of Modern Art, New York

"L'absence, Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens (1823 – 1906)

Stevens was a Belgian painter, known for his paintings of elegant modern women. Perhaps she's looking for Middle C!

The Piano Lesson, Gustave Caillebotte, 1881

The Piano Lesson, George Goodwin Kilburne, 1871

Playing to a Captive Audience, Izzy Anderson

The Pianist, Clarence Cole Phillips, 1915

Young Girls at the Piano (La Leçon de piano), Pierre-Auguste Renoir, ca. 1889

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