Roma men, women, and children on horseback and on foot [historically known as Les Bohémiens en Marche, pièce aussi appelée L'Avant-Garde (The Gypsies Travelling, piece also called The Advance Gard), from "Le Bohémiens, série appelée aussi Les Égyptiens, La Marche des Bohémiens, La Vie Errante des Bohémiens, Les Marches Égyptiennes" (The Gypsies, series also called The Egyptians, The Gypsy Troops, The Wandering Lives of Gypsies, The Egyptian Troops)] — Jacques Callot

Jacques Callot

Roma men, women, and children on horseback and on foot [historically known as Les Bohémiens en Marche, pièce aussi appelée L'Avant-Garde (The Gypsies Travelling, piece also called The Advance Gard), from "Le Bohémiens, série appelée aussi Les Égyptiens, La Marche des Bohémiens, La Vie Errante des Bohémiens, Les Marches Égyptiennes" (The Gypsies, series also called The Egyptians, The Gypsy Troops, The Wandering Lives of Gypsies, The Egyptian Troops)]

1621–22

Dating
Date range
Held at
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium
Etching and engraving; second state of two (Lieure)
Dimensions
Mount: 6 5/8 x 11 7/16 in. (16.8 x 29 cm) Sheet: 5 5/16 x 9 3/4 in. (13.5 x 24.7 cm) Plate: 4 15/16 x 9 5/16 in. (12.6 x 23.6 cm)
Collection no.
62.635.920
Attribution
By the artist
Image rights
CC0 1.0License details

Jacques Callot. Roma men, women, and children on horseback and on foot [historically known as Les Bohémiens en Marche, pièce aussi appelée L'Avant-Garde (The Gypsies Travelling, piece also called The Advance Gard), from "Le Bohémiens, série appelée aussi Les Égyptiens, La Marche des Bohémiens, La Vie Errante des Bohémiens, Les Marches Égyptiennes" (The Gypsies, series also called The Egyptians, The Gypsy Troops, The Wandering Lives of Gypsies, The Egyptian Troops)]. Jacques Callot; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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