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Pietro Longhi: The Music Lesson   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Pietro Longhi  (1701–1785)  wikidata:Q447058 q:it:Pietro Longhi
 
Pietro Longhi
Alternative names
Birth name: Pietro Falca
Description Italian painter, drawer and visual artist
Date of birth/death 5 November 1701 Edit this at Wikidata 8 May 1785 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Venice Venice
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artist QS:P170,Q447058
Title
The Music Lesson
Description
English: Longhi was a successful painter of upper-class life in Venice, and he specialized in stylish interiors. His scenes of the amusements of the wealthy often possess a touch of humor, sometimes mirroring the satires so popular in Venetian theater of the time. In this scene, an elderly music teacher takes advantage of the interruption caused by servants to squeeze the hand of his young pupil in front of the pianoforte. The little dog, a traditional symbol of faithfulness, with its raised paw, mirrors his gesture, almost as a parody of the old man's furtive expression of desire.
Date circa 1760
date QS:P571,+1760-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
(Baroque
era QS:P2348,Q37853
)
Medium oil on copper
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q753,P518,Q861259
Dimensions Painted surface height: 44.6 cm (17.5 in); width: 57.6 cm (22.6 in); depth: 0.2 cm (0 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,44.6U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,57.6U174728
dimensions QS:P5524,0.2U174728
; Framed H with no build-up: 21 1/2 x W: 26 1/2 x D: 1 3/4 in. (54.61 x 67.31 x 4.45 cm); Framed H with hanger on top of frame: 55.8 cm (22 in)
institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number
37.397
Place of creation Venice, Italy
Object history
  • Henry Walters, Baltimore, prior to 1909 [mode of acquisition unknown] [in Walters catalogues as Voltaire chez la Princesse de Condé, French School, eighteenth century]
  • 1931: bequeathed to Walters Art Museum by Henry Walters
Exhibition history Giuseppe Maria Crespi and the Emergence of Genre Painting in Italy. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth. 1986. Pietro Longhi. Museo Correr, Venice. 1993-1994. Tiepolo Unveiled: The Restoration of a Masterpiece. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1996. Venice in Canaletto's Age. The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota. 2009-2010.
Credit line Acquired by Henry Walters, before 1909
References Federico Zeri (1976) (in English) Italian paintings in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, no. 452 , pp. 564 OCLC: 2463997.
Source Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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