The Music Lesson (Matisse)

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The Music Lesson^[1]
Artist	Henri Matisse
Year	1917
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	245.1 cm × 210.8 cm (96.5 in × 83.0 in)
Location	The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

The Music Lesson (French: La leçon de musique) is a 1917 oil painting by Henri Matisse.^[2] It is on display at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

This work is a family portrait depicting the artist's relatives around a Pleyel piano and a window in Issy-les-Moulineaux. The theme is a much more naturalistic recreation of The Piano Lesson, created the previous year in large colored sections, which is now at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York.

References

^ Getlein, Mark. "Chapter 2 / Art and Meaning / Photo 2.25." Living with Art. 8th ed. Boston, MA: McGraw Hill, 2008. Print.
^ Flam, Jack D. (2006). Matisse in transition: around Laurette. Norton Museum of Art

Henri Matisse

Works

1890s–1900s	Woman Reading (1894) Landscape, the Pink Wall (1898) Academy Study of a Man (1900-1901) A Glimpse of Notre-Dame in the Late Afternoon (1902) Luxury, Calm and Pleasure (1904) The Green Stripe (1905) The Open Window (1905) Woman with a Hat (1905) View of Collioure (1905) Landscape at Collioure (1905) The Red Carpets (1906) Le bonheur de vivre (1906) Marguerite Reading (1906) The Young Sailor II (1906) Self-Portrait in a Striped T-shirt (1906) Madras Rouge (1907) Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra) (1907) The Dessert: Harmony in Red (The Red Room) (1908) Game of Bowls (1908) Bathers with a Turtle (1908) Portrait of Greta Moll (1908) Seated Nude (1909)
1910s–1920s	Dance (1910) Music (1910) Still Life with Geraniums (1910) Interior with Aubergines (1911) The Red Studio (1911) The Conversation (1908–1912) Goldfish (1912) The Little Mulatta (1912) View over the Bay of Tangier (1912) Zorah on the Terrace (1912) Window at Tangier (1912) Paysage marocain (Acanthes) (1912) Seated Riffian (1912) Arab Coffeehouse (1912–1913) View of Notre-Dame (1914) Woman on a High Stool (1914) The Yellow Curtain (1915) Bathers by a River (1917) The Painter and His Model (1917) The Music Lesson (1917) The Piano Lesson (1918) Odalisque with Raised Arms (1923) Yellow Odalisque (1926)
1930s–1950s	The Dance II (1932) Purple Robe and Anemones (1937) Woman in a Purple Coat (1937) La Blouse Roumaine (1940) Annelies, White Tulips and Anemones (1944) Young Woman Lying on a White Fur (1944) Asia (1946) Young Woman in White on a Red Background (1946) The Knife Thrower (1947) Deux fillettes, fond jaune et rouge (1947) The Plum Blossoms (1948) Beasts of the Sea (1950) The Sorrows of the King (1952) Black Leaf on Green Background (1952) La Négresse (1952) The Snail (1953) The Boat (1953)