What is the title of Picasso's painting of a family of circus performers?

What is the title of Picasso's painting of a family of circus performers? Family of Saltimbanques. Painted in 1905, it is a major work of Picasso's Rose Period and shows six itinerant circus performers in a barren landscape.

Picasso developed the composition between late 1904 and early 1906, during a period when he frequently visited the Cirque Medrano in Montmartre. He was drawn to saltimbanques—traveling acrobats and entertainers—partly because their precarious, mobile lives echoed his own experiences as a young artist. The French title is Famille de saltimbanques.

The large oil painting measures about 212.8 by 229.6 centimeters and is now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Although the figures stand together, they appear emotionally isolated rather than celebratory. The harlequin is often interpreted as a self-portrait or symbolic stand-in for Picasso.

Scientific examination revealed two earlier compositions beneath the finished surface: one depicting a circus family and another showing two acrobats. This helps explain why options such as Circus Family or The Acrobats can sound plausible, but they are not the title of the completed painting.