Draft:Gitane au tambourin
{{Short description|Painting by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot}}
{{Draft topics|visual-arts|south-america}}
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{{Infobox artwork
| image_file = Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot - Gitana con pandereta, MB.JPG
| image_upright = 1
| title = Gitane au tambourin
| other_language_1=English
| other_title_1=Gypsy with tambourine
| artist = Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
| catalogue = AP3259
| year = {{circa}} 1862
| medium = Oil on canvas
| movement =
| height_metric = 59
| width_metric = 38
| metric_unit = cm
| imperial_unit = in
| museum = Museo Botero
|city=Bogotá D.C.
| owner = Banco de la República
| accession = 2000
}}
Gitane au tambourin ({{langx|en|Gypsy with tambourine}}) is an oil-on-canvas painting by French painter Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. Executed {{circa}} 1862, it is now held in the collection of the Bank of the Republic and exhibited at the Museo Botero, in Bogotá.{{cite web |title=Gitana con pandereta (Gitane au tambourin) - Pintura|url= https://colecciones.banrepcultural.org/document/coleccion/63a069015d96b8790f25fb2a|website=banrepcultural.org |publisher=Banco de la República de Colombia|access-date=23 January 2025 |location=Bogotá, Colombia |language=Spanish |date=2000}}
Description
The painting, which is described as a portrait, was painted by Corot circa 1862. It depicts a woman dressed in bright red and yellow colors posing with a tambourine, elements typical of Romani culture.{{cite web |title=The Splendor of the Traditional Port of the Roma: Women and Men in Colors and Traditions |url= https://www.povestiromantice.ro/en/splendoarea-portului-traditional-al-romilor-femei-si-barbati-in-culori-si-traditii/ |publisher=povestiromantice.ro|access-date=23 January 2025 |location=Bucharest, Romania |language=English |date=16 August 2023}} In the background, an unknown individual can be observed walking towards the main subject along an unpaved path surrounded by woodlands.
Historical information
Towards the end of Camille Corot's life, the artist was knowned to have invited Italian models to his studio, dressed them in traditional Modern Greek or Italian costumes, and painted them. Corot would then later add an imaginary landscape in the background. In Gitane au tambourin, the artist highlights the vivid red and yellow colors of the dress, as well as the social reality of the Romani people, wandering individuals strongly linked to music. Corot highlights this situation in the painting, placing the dressed woman on a path that leads to the entrance of an unknown city, alluding to the movement and dynamism of the Rom.{{cite web |title=Gitana con pandereta (Gitane au tambourin) - Pintura|url= https://colecciones.banrepcultural.org/document/coleccion/63a069015d96b8790f25fb2a|website=banrepcultural.org |publisher=Banco de la República de Colombia|access-date=23 January 2025 |location=Bogotá, Colombia |language=Spanish |date=2000}}
Provenance
Fernando Botero, an avid art collector, acquired the painting from a Christie's auction.Quoted in Juan Manuel Bonet (2021), p. 347. In 2000, Botero donated the painting to the Bank of the Republic to form the Museo Botero along with 207 other paintings and sculptures.{{cite web |title=Las obras donadas por Fernando Botero |url= https://revistaexclama.com/fernando-botero-y-sus-donaciones/|website=revistaexclama.com |publisher=Revista Exclama|access-date=23 January 2025 |location= |language=Spanish |date=2023}}
Per Resolution 565, of 16 April 2012, of the Ministry of Culture of Colombia, the entirety of the Fernando Botero collection, including Gitane au tambourin, was voted on by the National Council of Cultural Heritage as an asset of cultural interest for the nation.{{cite web |title=LISTA DE BIENES DECLARADOS BIEN DE INTERÉS CULTURAL DEL ÁMBITO NACIONAL|url=https://www.mincultura.gov.co/areas/patrimonio/patrimonio-cultural-en-Colombia/bienes-de-interes-cultural-BICNAL/Documents/BIENES%20DE%20INTER%c3%89S%20CULTURAL%20DEL%20%c3%81MBITO%20NACIONAL_octubre2023.pdf |website=Ministerio de Cultura|access-date=23 January 2025 |location=Bogotá, Colombia |language=Spanish |date=October 2023}}
The painting had previously been part of Gerald Reitlinger's private art collection.Quoted in Juan Manuel Bonet (2021), p. 324.
References
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Bibliography
- Robaut, Alfred. (1905). L'oeuvre de Corot. Paris. Lagare Street Press. {{ISBN|9781017208900}}
- Caballero, Antonio. (2002). Colección Botero: en primera persona del singular. Bogotá: Banco de la República de Colombia. {{ISBN|958-664-102-3}}
- Bonet, Juan Manuel. (2021). Museo Botero. Bogotá: Banco de la República de Colombia. {{ISBN|978-958-664-419-8}}
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Category:Paintings by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot