The figures in this work "trace a vague capital 'C' for Creation," according to a poem that says they are "less secure than even we."
One figure in this work was based on the artist's Woman of Majorca, who wears a flat-brimmed, pointed, and veiled hat. In this painting, that woman instead wears a flowery straw hat and sits on a red skirt beside a clay jug. The figures in this work "trace a vague capital 'C' for Creation," according to a poem that says they are "less secure than even we." The racetrack in the background of this work was replaced with a landscape that also fills its artist's Boy Leading a Horse. In this painting, a youth wearing only briefs carries a drum over his shoulders. The seated woman in this work may have been modeled on (*) Fernande Olivier, while a fat man in red clothing was probably based on Apollinaire. The Fifth Duino Elegy was inspired by this work, which is at the National Gallery and includes a self-portrait of this work's painter in a diamond-patterned harlequin costume. For 10 points, name this painting from Picasso's Rose Period in which a group of circus performers stand in a barren desert. 
One figure in this work was based on the artist's Woman of Majorca, who wears a flat-brimmed, pointed, and veiled hat.
Family of Saltimbanques [or La  famille du saltimbanques]