Spanish, 'A Man and a Child eating Grapes', probably 19th century
About the work
Overview
A man and child are seated at a table. The man looks attentively at the child, who turns away and picks a grape from a bunch nearby. The rest of the composition is only roughly sketched in; the child’s left arm, the man’s body and the table are unfinished.
The painting was once thought to be by a seventeenth-century Spanish artist, and was formerly attributed to Velázquez and to Pedro Núñez de Villavicencio, who was known for his popular childhood scenes.
However, it is more likely that it is a copy of a seventeenth-century Spanish painting by an artist working in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century. It cannot have been made later than this as the painting was first recorded in the mid-nineteenth century at the Earl of Clare sale in London. During this period, artists copied works by Spanish old masters as part of their academic training.
Key facts
Details
- Full title
- A Man and a Child eating Grapes
- Artist
- Spanish
- Date made
- probably 19th century
- Medium and support
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 73 × 57.8 cm
- Acquisition credit
- Salting Bequest, 1910
- Inventory number
- NG2526
- Location
- Not on display
- Collection
- Main Collection
- Previous owners
Provenance
Additional information
Text extracted from the ‘Provenance’ section of the catalogue entry in Neil MacLaren, revised by Allan Braham, ‘ÁùºÏ²ÊÔ¤²â Catalogues: The Spanish School’, London 1988; for further information, see the full catalogue entry.
Bibliography
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1952Maclaren, Neil, ÁùºÏ²ÊÔ¤²â Catalogues: The Spanish School, London 1952
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1988Maclaren, Neil, revised by Allan Braham, ÁùºÏ²ÊÔ¤²â Catalogues: The Spanish School, 2nd edn (revised), London 1988
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2001
C. Baker and T. Henry, ÁùºÏ²ÊÔ¤²â: Complete Illustrated Catalogue, London 2001
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