Gypsy Horses

A term carried from the source

The title uses a word for a travelling community that this catalogue holds because its source holds it. The record is reproduced rather than rewritten, and the term is information about how the work was catalogued rather than a description of any person. Nothing else in the record identifies whom the animals belonged to.

The function the title implies

A title of that kind places the animals outside the stable and outside the carriage house. They belong to a household rather than to an establishment with staff, which is a functional category distinct from the racecourse, the coachyard and the estate. That is as far as the record takes it, and this page does not take it further.

What the record holds

The date of creation is 1886 and the location line reads Private Collection. The dimensions are not recorded. Impressionism is the recorded style, French the recorded nationality, and the measured colour family of the image is brown. Beyond Animal Art > Horse the record carries only a vintage heading, which in this catalogue is a filing term rather than a statement about age.