Berthe Morisot - Lucie Léon at the Piano 1892
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Lucie Léon at the Piano 1892
96x83cm oil/canvas
Seattle Art Museum, US
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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.
Berthe Morisot herself was also exceptional, one of the few women artists to regularly exhibit with the Impressionists. The influence of her brother-in-law Édouard Manet is evident in the loose, fluid brushwork of this study.