Family of Saltimbanques | |
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Artist | Pablo Picasso |
Year | 1905 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Movement | Picasso's Rose Period |
Dimensions | 212.8 cm × 229.6 cm (83+3⁄4 in × 90+3⁄8 in) |
Location | Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. |
Family of Saltimbanques (French: Famille de saltimbanques) is a 1905 oil on canvas painting by Pablo Picasso. The work depicts six saltimbanques, a kind of itinerant circus performer, in a desolate landscape. It is considered the masterpiece of Picasso's Rose Period, sometimes called his circus period. The painting is housed in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.