Woman at a Piano

The work was painted in 1904 in France. It is dated to 1904 by the artist and recorded as such in institutional documentation.

By 2025 the painting was in the collection of the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, where it is listed as part of the museum’s holdings.

Woman at a Piano is held in the collection of the Hermitage Museum. The work, an oil painting on canvas created in 1904, measures 43.5 cm in height and 57 cm in width. While the piece is documented as part of the museum's holdings, the available records do not provide a specific inventory or accession number for the artwork.

Furthermore, there is no information currently sourced regarding any past or future exhibitions in which this painting has been displayed.

Félix Vallotton's 1904 painting Woman at a Piano entered the Hermitage Museum's collection and exemplifies his role in early 20th-century French art. The work depicts a solitary woman seated at a piano within a domestic interior, framed by a window and a flowering plant, rendered in oil on canvas (43.5 cm × 57 cm).

Woman at a Piano has influenced later portrayals of domestic interior scenes by emphasizing psychological tension within bourgeois settings. The painting's composition, particularly its use of flattened perspective and stark lighting, informed mid-20th century approaches to spatial ambiguity in figurative painting. Its inclusion in the Hermitage Museum collection has ensured continued scholarly attention to Vallotton's role in bridging Post-Impressionism and modernism.

Félix Vallotton’s 1904 oil on canvas entitled Woman at a Piano presents an intimate interior scene. A solitary figure sits before a dark piano, her back turned toward the viewer, while a window opens onto a verdant landscape. The composition is held by the State Hermitage Museum, where it remains part of the early‑twentieth‑century European collection.