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Two Gipsy Women Outside their Cottage. Spain
Two Gipsy Women Outside their Cottage. Spain is an oil painting by the Impressionist artist Peder Severin Krøyer. It dates from 1890 and is held in the collection of the Statens Museum for Kunst.
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Subject & Meaning
The women wear traditional dress and are positioned before a rustic doorway, highlighting their distinct cultural appearance.
Two Romani women stand outside a simple cottage in Spain, captured in a genre painting that records their everyday setting. The women wear traditional dress and are positioned before a rustic doorway, highlighting their distinct cultural appearance. As a genre scene, the work focuses on the particularities of gypsy life, presenting a straightforward observation of their clothing, posture, and rural surroundings without narrative embellishment.
Measuring 182 cm in height and 156 cm in width, the canvas gives the women a commanding presence within the pictorial space.
Technique & Style
Executed in 1878, this work is an oil painting on canvas. The composition measures 182 cm in height and 156 cm in width. Classified as a genre scene, the piece depicts two Romani women situated outside a cottage, reflecting the artist's engagement with realistic subject matter during this period.
The application of oil paint on a woven canvas support aligns with standard nineteenth-century European painting practices utilized by the artist.
History & Provenance
Two Gipsy Women Outside their Cottage. Spain was created by Peder Severin Krøyer in 1878, executed in oil paint on canvas. The work is held in the collection of the Statens Museum for Kunst, where it remains located.
The sources do not document the circumstances of the commission, the chain of prior ownerships, or any intermediate provenance before the painting entered the Statens Museum for Kunst. Likewise, no information is provided about acquisition date, donor, or purchase history. The creation history is limited to the inception date of 1878 and the medium of oil on canvas, with no further details on where or under what conditions Krøyer produced the work.
The painting Two Gipsy Women Outside their Cottage. Spain is held in the collection of the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen. While the artwork lacks a specific accession number in the provided records, it is cataloged within the museum's holdings as a work by Peder Severin Krøyer created in 1878. The source material does not contain any information regarding a specific exhibition history for this piece.
Overview
Peder Severin Krøyer’s 1890 oil painting, Two Gipsy Women Outside Their Cottage, presents a quiet domestic moment set against a rugged stone wall. The composition centers on two women, a baby, and a basket of flowers, with a distant town and a lone cactus visible in the background. The work belongs to the genre‑painting tradition and is part of the collection of Denmark’s Statens Museum for Kunst.
Context
Created during a time when artists frequently explored exoticized depictions of itinerant peoples, the work aligns with contemporary European fascination with Romani life. Krøyer, known for his naturalistic approach, integrates this interest with his characteristic attention to light and atmosphere, situating the piece within both his oeuvre and the wider genre‑painting movement of the late 19th century.
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