L'Orchestre de l'Opéra

The Orchestra at the Opera (c. 1870) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Edgar Degas (1834–1917).

The musicians depicted in the orchestra pit of the Salle Le Peletier the home of the Paris Opera (from 1821 until it burnt down in 1873) are mostly portraits of friends of Degas, foremost among them pictorially the bassoonist and composer Désiré Dihau (1838–1909), who commissioned the painting, at work on his instrument, and the cellist Louis-Marie Pilet (1815–1877) on his string instrument.

The painting was handed over, without further retouching possible, to its owner (Dihau), who exhibited it in Lille, which caused Degas' family, until then doubtful about the art of their "Raphael", to remark: "It is thanks to you that he has finally produced and completed a work, a real painting".

Blurring the distinction between portraiture and genre pieces, Degas painted his bassoonist frie…

摘自英文维基百科「The Orchestra at the Opera」（CC BY-SA 4.0），暂时没有中文条目。