Debussy as a young man in the early 1880s

Antoine Marmontel, Debussy’s first piano teacher at the Conservatoire

Ernest Guiraud, Debussy’s first composition teacher

Marie Vasnier, after a portrait by Paul Baudry

At Luzancy (seated) with Jeanne Chausson, Ernest Chausson and Raymond Bonheur, 1893

At the piano at Luzancy, with Bonheur and the Chaussons, 1893

Gaby Dupont

Pierre Louÿs

The day after the première of Pelléas et Mélisande, May 1902

Jacques Durand, Debussy’s principal publisher

Lilly Debussy in Paul Dukas’s library at Eragny, 1902

With Louis Laloy (left), c. 1905

With his wife Emma, c. 1913

With his fox terrier, Boy, and collie, Xanto, 1907

With Erik Satie in 1910, taken by Igor Stravinsky

Chouchou, c. 1912

On the beach with Chouchou, Houlgate, 1911

At Saint-Jean-de-Luz, summer 1917