Autour d'une partition

Details

Albert Aublet (French, 1851-1938)
Autour d'une partition
signed and dated 'Albert Aublet 1888.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
77 x 62 in. (195.6 x 157.5 cm.)
Painted circa 1888.

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 3 March 2006, lot 423.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

S. Huebner, French Opera at the Fin de Siècle. Wagnerism, Nationalism, and Style, New York, 1999, p. 161 (illustrated, fig. 8).

Exhibited

Paris, Salon, 1888, no. 71.

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Lot Essay

The present lot depicts the French composer Jules Massenet at the piano rehearsing `Manon' with the American opera singer Sybil Sanderson . The scene is set in the elegant drawing room of Pierre Loti's residence. The French writer can be possibly identified in the background, on the stairs.

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