Woman at the Piano with Cockatoo

Gustave Léonard de Jonghe (Belgian, 1829-1893) - Woman at the Piano with Cockatoo, c.1870 (Oil on panel) - “M. de Jonghe possesses a valuable quality, one which the schools of Antwerp and Brussels have sometimes too much sacrificed to the seductions of effect; we mean the quality of sentiment, without which Art is nothing more than a carcass grandly adorned.” – The Art Journal of London, 1866