An Amateur Concert

This huge work, ambiguous for its epic grandeur and banal theme, of an intimate nature, was presented in the 1883 Salon in Paris. It is a work of youth, but also one of the painter' most important, and one of the most significant pieces of Portuguese art due to its spatial organisation of the scene, drawn in an oval that is diluted in monochrome, in an immersive line of pictorial representation of…