Title of Artwork: “Around the piano”
Artwork by Henri Fantin-Latour
Year Created 1885
Summary of Around the piano
Henri Fantin-1885 Latour’s painting Around the Piano (French: Autour du piano) depicts a group of people gathered around a piano. Adolphe Jullien purchased it after seeing it at the Paris Salon the year before. While at the Louvre until 1986, it was loaned to the Musée du Luxembourg in 1915. At the moment, it is housed in Paris’s Musée d’Orsay.
All About Around the piano
Fantin-Latour painted four portraits of groups of friends and celebrities in the arts, and this was the final one. He was alluding to the concerts given by Antoine Lascoux’s band “Le Petit Bayreuth” There were three prior paintings and numerous still-life studies that were never recognised by critics. He finally made it to the end of Around the Piano. Despite this, the painting is the least well-known of the four in the series. This could be due to the fact that the subjects it depicts are less well-known.
Camille Saint-Saens, a composer who was an early supporter of Wagner, was thought to be seated at the piano in the painting that was exhibited at the Salon of 1885. As a close friend of Latour’s, Adolphe Jullien, rejected this name, saying that Fantin did not want to paint an artistic manifesto, but rather a gathering of friends and that the score on the piano was a piece by Brahms.
Information Citations
En.wikipedia.org, https://en.wikipedia.org/.
