The arts often overlap, especially with historical eras and movements. It is interesting to notice, however, how music is portrayed in the art world because most represent female muses. Additionally, women musicians are most often depicted as singers or piano players. More men are shown in orchestras and as playing guitars. It is interesting that Mary Cassatt a well renowned Impressionist painter mostly depicted women as audience members at the opera. It seems that art is depicting the musical society of the late nineteenth century and highlighting women singers and musical events as upper class entertainment. One can also demise that if a woman was a professional musician then she was a singer, but piano playing and violin playing were mostly domestic past-times and good skills for young women. Here are some paintings:
Two Young Girls at the Piano, Renoir, 1892
The Daughters of Catulle Mendes, Renoir 1888
Mary Cassatt
The Orchestra at the Opera, Degas, 1870
Singer with a Glove, Degas, 1878
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