"music Lesson In A Park," Oil On Panel By Adolphe Monicelli.

A park scene that is very characteristic of Adolphe Monticelli’s work, following a “lower left to upper right” diagonal across the scene, which features four figures and a dog.
Three young women in beautiful green, brown, and white dresses are attending a lesson taught by a musician in a red outfit, holding a mandolin.
In the foreground, the student in the white dress
is reading sheet music, and a dog is hiding in the ruffles of her dress.
The scene takes place in a park with many trees, featuring, on the left, a square column
topped with a vase of flowers.
Signed, lower right, “Monticelli” for Adolphe Monticelli, a Provençal painter and Orientalist born in Marseille in
He painted several park scenes on the theme of the “lesson”: music, love, singing... . Reinforced mahogany panel, bearing a provenance label on the back: “Paul Treppoz in Lyon.” Slight, short crack.
Beautiful original antique frame (85x65).
Note: Paul Treppoz, a notary, was born in Lyon in 1862.