The Gypsy Girl (Hals)
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For other uses, see Gypsy Girl (disambiguation).
The Gypsy Girl, also known as Gypsy Girl[1] or Young Woman (La Bohémienne)[2] (and sometimes erroneously referred to as Malle Babbe) is an oil-on-wood painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in 1628–1630, and now in the Louvre Museum, in Paris. It is a tronie, a study of facial expression and unusual costume, rather than a commissioned portrait.
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Artist | Frans Hals |
Year | 1628–1630 |
Catalogue | Seymour Slive, Catalog 1974: #62 |
Medium | Oil on wood |
Dimensions | 57.8 cm × 52.1 cm (22.8 in × 20.5 in) |
Location | Louvre Museum, Paris |
Accession | M.I. 926 |
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The display of cleavage was not a common feature of costume seen in public in Hals' time and place. For this reason various art historians have assumed a painting of a prostitute was intended. There is no reason to assume the model was Romani, a 19th-century decision.