Two Urchins Eating Melon and Grapes

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The artist's style of painting the street children of his native Seville was unprecedented. He employs great naturalism, a sombre palette, strong chiaroscuro (contrasting lights and darks) and very little background detail. The children are caught, as if in a photograph, playing or eating, but rarely seem aware of an onlooker.

Along with the version bought by Ralph Bakes now at Kingston Lacy (a property in the care of the National Trust), it is amongst the first examples of Spanish seventeenth-century painting to have been collected in England, albeit not a signed work.

National Trust, Dunster Castle

near Minehead

Title

Two Urchins Eating Melon and Grapes

Date

late 17th C

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 127 x W 101.6 cm

Accession number

726065

Acquisition method

gift from Lieutenant-Colonel Geoffrey Walter Fownes Luttrell, 1981

Work type

Painting

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National Trust, Dunster Castle

Dunster, near Minehead, Somerset TA24 6SL England

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