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Around the Piano (French: Autour du piano) is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Henri Fantin-Latour, executed in 1885. It was exhibited at the Paris Salon the same year, then was bought by Adolphe Jullien. In 1915, it was given to the Musée du Luxembourg, then was at the Musée du Louvre until 1986. It is currently kept at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.[1]

Around the Piano
Artist	Henri Fantin-Latour
Year	1885
Type	oil painting
Dimensions	160 cm × 220 cm (63 in × 87 in)
Location	Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Background and reception

The painting was the last of the four portraits of groups that Fantin-Latour devoted to his friends and celebrities in the arts world. He referred here to the concerts given by the group known as "Le Petit Bayreuth" initiated by Antoine Lascoux. Around the Piano received more critical acclaim than his previous works, but remains the least known of his series of four group portraits, perhaps because the people depicted are less famous.

Exhibited at the Salon of 1885, the painting was called The Wagnerists by visitors, as the person seated at the piano was thought to be Camille Saint-Saëns, a composer who was an early supporter of Wagner. Adolphe Jullien, a close friend of Latour, rejected this name, saying that Fantin did not want to paint an artistic manifesto, but simply a gathering of friends, and that the score on the piano, although indistinct, was a piece by Brahms.[2]

Description

Eight men are depicted around a piano, from left to right:[1]

• Seated: Emmanuel Chabrier playing the piano, Edmond Maître and Amédée Pigeon
• Standing: Adolphe Jullien, Arthur Boisseau, Camille Benoît, Antoine Lascoux and Vincent d'Indy

• 
  Emmanuel Chabrier
• 
  Edmond Maître
• 
  Vincent d'Indy

References

На других языках

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- [en] Around the Piano

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[es] Alrededor del piano

Alrededor del piano (en francés, Autour du piano) es un cuadro de Henri Fantin-Latour, pintado en 1885, que representa varios músicos célebres. Se encuentra en el Museo de Orsay. Se trata de uno de cuatro cuadros de este pintor que plasmaba al grupo representativo de artistas e intelectuales de su tiempo.

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[fr] Autour du piano

Autour du piano est un tableau d'Henri Fantin-Latour, qui fut exposé au Salon de 1885. Il est conservé au Musée d'Orsay à Paris.

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