A Gipsy Encampment at Filaret outside Bucharest
Watercolour
1869 (painted)
1869 (painted)
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Preziosi visited Bucharest, the capital of the two then recently united Rumanian principalities, in 1868 and 1869. The large number of drawings made by him on these two trips range from atmospheric wash studies of river and sky to highly detailed figure compositions illustrating the folk-life of Rumania. The majority are still in Rumania, in the Muzeul de arta al Republich Socialiste Romania. This lively drawing, though rapidly executed, packs in much visual information. It focuses on the gipsies and their distinctive cart with its curious axle and springing arrangement, and includes in the foreground a girl carrying an unusually turned and carved wooden water-pot.
Object details
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| Title | A Gipsy Encampment at Filaret outside Bucharest (popular title) |
| Materials and techniques | Pencil and watercolour, on stiff paper |
| Brief description | Watercolour, A Gipsy Encampment at Filaret outside Bucharest, 1869, by Amadeo, 5th Count Preziosi |
| Physical description | Watercolour drawing |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Signed, inscribed and dated Preziosi Bucharest '69. |
| Credit line | Purchased with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund, Shell International and the Friends of the V&A |
| Object history | According to Rodney Searight: - `Bt at Bonhams, Sept. 1968, £13'. |
| Historical context | One of many drawings made by the artist during his visits to Romania in 1868 and 1869. Cf. a more worked-up watercolour of the same scene, View of Bucharest from Filaret, dated 1 juillet 1868, from a series of at least forty-one views in Romania, in the Muzeul de arta al Republich Socialiste Romania: see A. Busuioceanu, Preziosi, in Collection Apollo. Artistes Etrangers en Roumanie, Bucharest, 1935. For further Romanian sketches, see M.N. Golfin, `Amadeo Preziosi - his nineteenth century watercolours in Rumania', The Connoisseur, January 1972, pp.27-30, and Preziosi, Bucharest, 1976. |
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| Summary | Preziosi visited Bucharest, the capital of the two then recently united Rumanian principalities, in 1868 and 1869. The large number of drawings made by him on these two trips range from atmospheric wash studies of river and sky to highly detailed figure compositions illustrating the folk-life of Rumania. The majority are still in Rumania, in the Muzeul de arta al Republich Socialiste Romania. This lively drawing, though rapidly executed, packs in much visual information. It focuses on the gipsies and their distinctive cart with its curious axle and springing arrangement, and includes in the foreground a girl carrying an unusually turned and carved wooden water-pot. |
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| Accession number | SD.829 |
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| Record created | March 24, 2008 |
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