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| Keywords: Pietro Longhi - The Music Lesson - Walters 37397.jpg Longhi was a successful painter of upper-class life in Venice and he specialized in stylish interiors His scenes of the amusements of the wealthy often possess a touch of humor sometimes mirroring the satires so popular in Venetian theater of the time In this scene an elderly music teacher takes advantage of the interruption caused by servants to squeeze the hand of his young pupil in front of the pianoforte The little dog a traditional symbol of faithfulness with its raised paw mirrors his gesture almost as a parody of the old man's furtive expression of desire Zeri Italian paintings in the Walters Art Gallery 452 564 ca 1760 Baroque oil on copper Painted surface cm 44 6 57 6 0 2 ; Framed H with no build-up 21 1/2 x W 26 1/2 x D 1 3/4 in 54 61 x 67 31 x 4 45 cm ; Framed H with hanger on top of frame cm 55 88 accession number 37 397 8243 Henry Walters Baltimore prior to 1909 mode of acquisition unknown in Walters catalogues as Voltaire chez la Princesse de Condé French School eighteenth century Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters before 1909 Giuseppe Maria Crespi and the Emergence of Genre Painting in Italy Kimbell Art Museum Fort Worth 1986 Pietro Longhi Museo Correr Venice 1993-1994 Tiepolo Unveiled The Restoration of a Masterpiece The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1996 Venice in Canaletto's Age The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Sarasota 2009-2010 place of origin Venice Italy Walters Art Museum license 2D Baroque paintings in the Walters Art Museum Pietro Longhi Paintings in the Walters Art Museum 18th-century way of life Attentive dogs Paintings of dogs Music lessons in art | ||||
