From all of us here at Glasstire, we wish all the dads out there a Happy Father’s Day!
Via the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston:
“Lorenzo Pagans, shown here singing and playing the guitar, was a Spanish-born tenor who made a reputation performing songs of his native land in Parisian salons of the 1860s. Degas’s father, who had instilled in his son a love of music, here listens attentively to the singer, his head framed by a sheet of music on the piano.”
Edgar Degas, Degas’s Father Listening to Lorenzo Pagans Playing the Guitar, about 1869–72. Oil on canvas. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
