Piano Lesson

Piano Lesson is an original artwork realized by  Adolphe Lalauze during the XIX-XX century.

Black and white etching on Japon paper. Signed on plate on the lower left. Good conditions, except for tape marks on the left corners of the paper sheet. Includes passepartout: 50.8 x 35 cm.

The artwork represents two children playing the piano.

Adolphe Lalauze  (1838 – 1906) was an important  French etcher, who made illustrations for many books. He studied at the  Toulouse École des Beaux-Arts and then he moved to Paris. He held his first exhibition at the Salon in 1872. He became famous for the series Le Petit Monde (The Small World), depicting childhood scenes using his children as models. He was a member of the Société des Artistes Français.