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| Keywords: Louis Gallait - Art and Liberty - Walters 3778.jpg This painting typifies the so-called juste-milieu middle path for which Gallait was so admired during his lifetime The subject is Romantic in its idealization of the poor but virtuous itinerant musician who bows to no authority but his own artistic muse At the same time it is restrained in its emotional tenor and painted with great technical assurance in the rendering of the body and in the carefully described details of the musician's dress This is a reduced version of this subject now at the Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts of Belgium When the larger version was exhibited at the Salon of 1851 critics praised the composition for its masterful drawing and melancholic dignity 1859 oil on wood mahogany panel cm 86 65 ; Framed cm 101 86 4 4 4 accession number 37 78 6365 H D Hooft van Woudenberg van Geerestein Sale Amsterdam 1880 no 41 William T Walters city Baltimore Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by William T Walters 1880 Signature Lower left Louis Gallait/; Date Lower left 1859 Salute to Belgium place of origin Belgium <gallery> File Gallait-Art et Liberté jpg File Louis Gallait 005 jpg </gallery> Walters Art Museum license 2D Salute to Belgium Louis Gallait French paintings in the Walters Art Museum Off the Wall Baltimore 1850s paintings from France 1859 paintings Violinists in art | ||||
