Mural created in June 2026 in Nantes, based on the painting by Charles-Zacharie Landelle, original (1872)
Sébastien Bouchard reinterprets the original painting, which features a melancholic-looking adolescent holding a tambourine. Clad in traditional drapery and wearing a fur hat, the model embodies the 19th-century fascination with the picturesque and exotic nature of the nomadic Balkan populations. Purchased by the French State as soon as it was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1873, the artwork was deposited at the Nantes Museum the following year.
This mural strongly evokes the invisibilisation and extreme precariousness in Nantes of these families from Eastern Europe (mainly from Romania, Bulgaria, or Balkan countries such as Serbia or Kosovo).
























