This painting of the tuileries gardens in paris was manet's first major work depicting modern city life. The band is playing and a fashionable crowd has gathered to listen. The picture includes portraits of manet's friends and family. These include manet himself as well as: baudelaire - poet (1821 - 1867); théophile gautier - poet and novelist (1811 - 1872); ignace fantin-latour - flower-painter (1836 - 1904); jacques offenbach (1819 - 1880) - composer; eugène - the artist's brother (1833 - 1892). Object Type: painting. Genre: genre art. Date: 1862. Dimensions: height: 76.2 cm (30 in); width: 118.1 cm (46.4 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: National Gallery. MANET - Música en las Tullerías (National Gallery, Londres, 1862)
