Art and Liberty
This painting typifies the so-called "juste-milieu" (middle path) for which Gallait was so admired during his lifetime. The subject is Romantic in its idealization of the poor but virtuous itinerant musician, who bows to no authority but his own artistic muse. At the same time...
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6365
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Probably Ernest Gambart, London, from ca. 1860; H. D. Hooft van Woudenberg van Geerestein Sale, Amsterdam, 1880, no. 41; William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1880, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_37.78_Fnt_BW_C80.jpg |
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| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.78 |
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