Berthe Morisot - Lucie Leon at the Piano 1892
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Lucie Leon at the Piano 1892
80x65cm oil/canvas
Private collection
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From Seattle Art Museum:
Music lessons, sewing, drawing and other creative pursuits were considered suitable activities for young bourgeois girls before marriage. This unsmiling young lady “would have preferred to play croquet rather than to pose at the piano,” according to the artist’s daughter Julie, who observed the painting sessions. Yet by 1898 Lucie Léon had become a prize-winning pianist with a public career, which was rare for women at the time.