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Moment Musicale
Moment Musicale depicts a young woman playing music by Franz Schubert at an upright piano, an affordable instrument that gave an air of cultured refinement to middle-class homes. The porcelain objects, rendered as carefully as the anonymous pianist, epitomize the refined interior decoration promoted by the Aesthetic Movement. Representations of women in the home exemplified the era's ideal of the genteel woman of leisure accomplished in the “domestic arts,” such as music.
- Artist
- Charles Frederic Ulrich
- Title
- Moment Musicale
- Date
- 1883
- Object Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Oil on wood panel
- Dimensions
- 15 3/4 x 20 in. (40 x 50.8 cm)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd
- Accession Number
- 1979.7.99