Using ideas of Synchromism, a movement that equated color with sound, Arthur B. Carles depicted the interior of his friend photographer Edward Steichen’s house with colors that seem to vibrate across the scene. Carles’ wife, Mercedes de Cordoba, is seated at a piano while four figures listen in the background near a window. Working in Paris by the summer of 1907, Carles adopted French Post-Impressionism’s vivid color palette. This painting was included in the Armory Show of 1913, a major traveling exhibition that introduced American audiences to the very latest in European and American contemporary art.