The Music Lesson (Matisse)

The Music Lesson (French: La leçon de musique) is a 1917 oil painting by Henri Matisse.^[2] It is on display at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The Music Lesson[1]
Artist	Henri Matisse
Year	1917
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	245.1 cm × 210.8 cm (96.5 in × 83.0 in)
Location	The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

This work is a family portrait depicting the artist's relatives around a Pleyel piano and a window in Issy-les-Moulineaux. The theme is a much more naturalistic recreation of The Piano Lesson, created the previous year in large colored sections, which is now at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York.

See also

• List of works by Henri Matisse