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Gypsies going to the fair – Antique Print

Gypsies going to the fair, c[between 1900 and 1912] — historic photograph
Gypsies going to the fair, c[between 1900 and 1912]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures Gypsies going to the fair in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Gypsies going to the fair

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Rather than a scene caught on the spot, this glass negative records a painting by the French artist Narcisse Díaz de la Peña, signed "N. Diaz," showing a group of travelers heading to a fair. Díaz de la Peña was a leading figure of the Barbizon school, and he often set figures like these in shaded woodland. The Detroit Publishing Company made photographs of artworks and scenic views like this one, so the picture preserves a canvas now held at the Museum of Fine Arts.

Created / publishedc[between 1900 and 1912]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
NotesTitle from photographer. Date based on Detroit, Thistle Publications (1912). Photograph of a painting signed N. Diaz" at Museum of Fine Arts
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan789 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-75565

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