Why it matters
A teacher in navy blue beats time while her pupil in black studies the score at an upright piano. Caillebotte gave the painting to Claude Monet, who kept it all his life.
Did you know?
- It dates from around 1879.
- It is unsigned.
- Michel Monet bequeathed it to the Musée Marmottan Monet in 1966.
Based on the French Wikipedia article La Leçon de piano (Caillebotte) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
