A Gipsy Encampment at Filaret outside Bucharest
Aloysius Rosarius Amadeus Raymondus Andreas Preziosi
1869
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Aloysius Rosarius Amadeus Raymondus Andreas Preziosi
1869
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Here’s a fresh try that meets all the rules: This watercolour shows a busy gipsy camp near Bucharest in 1869. It mixes quick brushwork with sharp details of daily life. The artist caught a girl’s wooden water-pot in the foreground, perfect in its turned shape. Preziosi visited twice in 1868 and 1869, making loads of drawings. Most stayed in Romania, but this lively sheet traveled instead to London. Next, look up the artist himself: Preziosi, Aloysius Rosarius Amadeus Raymondus Andreas (5th Count Preziosi).
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