Images, L.122

Images is a suite of nine compositions for solo piano by Claude Debussy. They were published in two books/series, each consisting of three pieces. These works are distinct from Debussy's Images pour orchestre. The first book was composed between 1901 and 1905, and the second book was composed in 1907. The total duration is approximately 30 minutes. With respect to the first series of Images, Debussy wrote to his publisher, Jacques Durand: "Without false pride, I feel that these three pieces hold together well, and that they will find their place in the literature of the piano... to the left of Schumann, or to the right of Chopin... "

Debussy wrote another collection, Images oubliées (L. 87), in the winter of 1894 and dedicated it to Yvonne Lerolle, daughter of the painter Henry Lerolle. The collection remained unpublished during Debussy's lifetime, despite an announcement in the February 1896 issue of Le Grand Journal that the score was soon to be published by Fromont. Its première publication came in 1977, by Theodore Presser in Pennsylvania.