Talk:The Gypsy Girl (Hals)

A Commons file used on this page has been nominated for deletion

The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page has been nominated for deletion:

Frans Hals 008.jpg

Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 01:07, 11 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation of title needed

"The Gypsy Girl" should be a redirect to Gypsy Girl (disambiguation) because there are now multiple articles on "The Gypsy Girl" (i.e. The Gypsy Girl (play), The Gypsy Girl (film)), and any one of the 'Gypsy Girl' or 'The Gypsy Girl' articles could potentially be a search term. WP:NOPRIMARY would seem to apply as well. I am going to be WP:BOLD and move the article again. 4meter4 (talk) 19:21, 31 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Romani?

@Bohemian Baltimore recently added the painting to the categories "Fictional representations of Romani people" and "Romani people in art". Those categorisations suggest that the person depicted is Romani. I believe the idea that the subject is Romani arose in 1869 when the Louvre acquired the picture and gave it its then new, now customary, title La Bohémienne -- which can, but need not, mean "Gypsy". The subject of the painting may be a sex worker, but the association of sex workers with "Gypsies" is a prejudice not flattering to either side of the "equation". Is it right for the picture to be in the two categories in question? --- Frans Fowler (talk) 01:35, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

PS I'm not good at pinging techniques; I'll try this as well: @Bohemian Baltimore: --Frans Fowler (talk) 15:19, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Frans Fowler Hmm. Thanks for pointing this out. Good question. If the categories are mistaken, they can be removed. This book claims that Frans Hals titled the painting but that the woman depicted was "widely believed to be a prostitute and not at all of Romani origin". I'm unsure whether that is saying that the painting is supposed to be depicting a prostitute or if the model for the painting was a prostitute. Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 15:38, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I can't see that source, but the author is a linguist and no art historian. It is a tronie & these were not given titles when painted - in fact few paintings had actual titles at this date. The categories be removed. Johnbod (talk) 20:04, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Young Woman (La Bohémienne)

We should use this new and more unracist lemma Oursana (talk) 12:23, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's not either new, nor the WP:COMMONNAME by a long strech, and it also just means "The Gypsy Girl" in French! Johnbod (talk) 14:56, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In a better world, the picture wouldn't be labelled La Bohémienne or The Gypsy Girl. (I think the English version is even worse than the French, because the English nudge-nudgingly half-implies she is under age.) But we shan't improve the world by changing the name of an article, and we oughtn't try. So no: better stay with the common name till that changes. --- Frans Fowler (talk) 11:48, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed - La Bohémienne also suggests nowadays, for better or worse and I think in French as well as English, a woman involved in Bohemianism. Johnbod (talk) 13:22, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]