Street Musicians
date: label: Date made
content: 1879
label: Date made
content: 1883
name: label: original artist
content: Gerôme, Jean-Léon
label: graphic artist
content: Piton, Camille
notes: label: Description
content: Jean Léon Gérôme (1824–1904) painted this scene of <I>Pifferari</I> or street musicians serenading an unseen image of the Virgin Mary in 1870. Camille Piton etched it for an auction catalog of works from the collection of J. C. Runkle, which were sold on March 8, 1883. The auction was organized by Samuel P. Avery, art dealer and print collector. Pifferari come from the mountains in Calabria, Italy, and from the Abruzzi to play bagpipes and reed instruments like the piffero, a kind of oboe, before images of the Virgin in Rome during the Christmas season. Jean Léon Gérôme was a favorite painter of Stephen Ferris, who named his son after him.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Musicians
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Ferris Collection
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content: Communications
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content: Art
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Wright, David G.. American Reproductive and Replica Etchings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.14886
label: catalog number
content: 14886
label: accession number
content: 94830
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
label: Object Type
content: Etching
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 14 cm x 11.5 cm; 5 1/2 in x 4 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: plate: 16 cm x 13.5 cm; 6 5/16 in x 5 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: sheet: 30 cm x 22.5 cm; 11 13/16 in x 8 7/8 in