| The Gypsy Girl | |
|---|---|
&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Frans_Hals_008.jpg) The Gypsy Girl, c.1628 Oil on wood, 57.8 x 52.1 cm | |
| 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 |
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.
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. From the 19th century the Louvre titled the painting La Bohémienne, meaning a female gypsy, but there is no reason to assume the model was Romani.
- ^ Steven Nadler (2022). The Portraitist: Frans Hals and His World. University of Chicago Press. p. 119-120. ISBN 9780226698366.
- ^ Cornelis, Bart (2023). Frans Hals (catalogue for 2024 London exhibition). London: National Gallery Global. p. 171. ISBN 9781857097122.