The Music Lesson is an oil painting by Frederic Leighton, first exhibited in 1877. The painting depicts a young girl, Connie GIlchrist, being taught to play the saz.
Exhibition The Exhibition of 1877 of the Royal Academy of Arts included a picture from Leighton's studio, entitled The Music Lesson.Staley 1906, p. 107. Early in 1878 Leighton was appointed president of the jury on paintings at the Paris International Exhibition, to which exhibition he contributed Elijah in the Wilderness, The Music Lesson, and Captain Richard Burton, H.M.'s Consul at Trieste.Staley 1906, p. 110.
Analysis Edgcumbe Staley admired the composition:
Ernest Rhys praised the beauty of the colouring:
See also
Academic art Orientalism
References
External links The Music Lesson at Google Arts and Culture Sources
Ash, Russell (1995). Lord Leighton. London: Pavilion Books Limited. p. 53 [Plate 19]. Jones, Stephen, et al. (1996). Frederic Leighton, 1830–1896. Royal Academy of Arts, London: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. pp. 147, 179, 185, 203. Rhys, Ernest (1900). Frederic Lord Leighton: An Illustrated Record of his Life and Work. London: George Bell & Sons. pp. 36–37, 126. Staley, Edgcumbe (1906). Lord Leighton of Stretton. London: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd.; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 107–108, 110, 112. "The Music Lesson". The Victorian Web. 8 February 2015. Accessed 2 July 2022.