print
- Museum number
- 1889,0603.1
- Title
- Object: Art et Liberté
- Description
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A young man, an itinerant musician, standing, three quarters, turned to right, dressed in a wide-brimnmed hat and tattered cloak and shirt, a wide strap or sash with a stud (?) across his chest, looks to right as he holds a violin in his left hand, resting it on his arm, the bow in his right hand; through an window to left, sun streaming through, a plant growing in from outside, on the ledge an ink pot with quill, papers and inscribed on the inner frame, within the image: "MARIA"; after Gallait
Lithograph on chine collé
- Production date
- 1849 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 333 millimetres
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Width: 246 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Gallait's painting of 1849 is in the Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Inv. 2567.
There is a reduced version of the painting dated 1859 in the Walters Art Museum, Accession Nuimber: 37.78.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1889
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1889,0603.1
