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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.
Title
A Man and a Child eating Grapes
Date
probably 19th C
Medium
Oil on canvas
Measurements
H 73 x W 57.8 cm
Accession number
NG2526
Acquisition method
Salting Bequest, 1910
Work type
Painting
The National Gallery, London
Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England
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