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Description: | Signed: yes Description: This fascinating interior suggests not only a comfortable, leisured bourgeois household but also one with strong artistic tastes. The easel and palette on a small table indicate an artist's studio. Rich fabrics and classical statuettes project an aura of cultured wealth. The luxuriously draped surfaces manipulate the fall of light and create varied textures against which the white-clad young woman playing the piano assumes a simple purity. One could read this painting as a kind of allegory of the senses of sight, hearing, touch, scent (the small perfume vial on the table beside the piano) and, in a different sense, taste. | Subjects: | interior; figure; | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Matesdorf, Théodore (Austrian artist, active late 19th century) Æ Attributed to | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8431... | Go to resource |
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