Dog Playing the Piano by James Yates Carrington
1888 / Oil on canvas / 23 3/5″x17 1/3″ / Stockport Heritage Services, Greater Manchester, England
1888 / Oil on canvas / 23 3/5″x17 1/3″ / Stockport Heritage Services, Greater Manchester, England
1880 / Oil on canvas / 65″x43 1/4″ / Private collection
Pictures at an Exhibition (original piano version) by Modest Mussorgsky
“One of Modest Mussorgsky’s best friends was Viktor Hartmann, an artist who tragically died of an aneurism in 1873 at the age of 39. Two weeks after Hartmann’s death, his friends and supporters organized a major exhibition of his works at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. About a year later, Mussorgsky composed ‘Pictures at an Exhibition‘. Completed in only twenty days, ‘Pictures’ was originally a set of short pieces for piano in which Mussorgsky depicted himself walking through the exhibition and contemplating Hartmann’s works.”
~ https://houstonsymphony.org/mussorgsky-pictures/
“In Russian folklore, Baba Yaga is a witch who flies through the woods on a mortar and pestle, searching for children to eat. She lives in a hut on hen’s legs that stalks the land. This movement was inspired by Hartmann’s design for an ornate clock in the shape of Baba Yaga’s hut.” [Watercolor. N/D]
~ https://houstonsymphony.org/mussorgsky-pictures/

c.1887 / Charcoal and gouache on off-white wove paper / Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
1876 / Oil on canvas / 32″x46″ / Artizon Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1897 / Oil on canvas / 28 3/4″x36 1/5″ / Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, France
c.1868 / Oil on canvas / 22 3/4″x36 2/5″ / Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Between 1869 and 1872 / Oil on canvas / 17 3/4″x12 3/4″ / Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France
1858-59 / Oil on canvas / 26 3/8″x36 1/8″ / Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH
1870 / Oil on wood panel / 26″x18 4/5″ / Private collection