The Music Lesson (Leighton)

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 1877 Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts included a picture from Leighton's studio, entitled The Music Lesson. 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.

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). '. London: Pavilion Books Limited. p. 53 [Plate 19].
• Jones, Stephen, et al. (1996). '. Royal Academy of Arts, London: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. pp. 147, 179, 185, 203.
• Rhys, Ernest (1900). '. London: George Bell & Sons. pp. 36–37, 126.
• Staley, Edgcumbe (1906). '. 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.