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Maker(s):Picasso, Pablo; Fort, Louis (printed by)
Culture:Spanish (Picasso 1881 - 1973)
Title:Les Saltimbanques; from the series Saltimbanques
Date Made:1905 plate; 1913 print
Type:Print
Materials:drypoint printed in black on Van Gelder wove paper
Place Made:France; Paris
Measurements:sheet: 19 7/8 x 25 11/16 in.; 50.4825 x 65.2463 cm; plate: 11 3/8 x 12 7/8 in.; 28.8925 x 32.7025 cm
Narrative Inscription:  signed and dated in plate at lower right: Picasso / 1905
Accession Number:  SC 1970.18.6
Credit Line:Gift of Selma Erving, class of 1927
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
family of saltimbanques, acrobats; bare landscape setting, family group in foreground, woman raising baby above her head on left, two small children fighting or wrestling on lower left, woman seated with something in her lap, looking to the right, older woman kneeling at center, making food, man with brimless hat standing at center, hands on hips, observing boy on right who is trying to balance on a ball, pregnant woman carrying wood over her shoulder with a child following behind her approaching from the right

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