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First described by Palomino (the artist's early biographer) in 1724: ‘He painted another picture of two poor men eating at a humble little table where there are different earthenware vessels, oranges, bread and other things, everything observed with rare thoroughness’. It has recently been suggested that the two men, formerly identified as beggars, were in fact kitchen helpers. This is one of the artist's 'bodegones' (scenes of everyday life), which were painted in his early years as an artist.

English Heritage, The Wellington Collection, Apsley House

London

Title

Two Young Men Eating at a Humble Table

Date

c.1618–1620

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 65.3 x W 104 cm

Accession number

WM.1593-1948

Acquisition method

management transferred from the Victoria and Albert Museum to English Heritage, 2004

Work type

Painting

English Heritage, The Wellington Collection, Apsley House

149 Piccadilly, Hyde Park Corner, London, Greater London W1J 7NT England

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Artist or maker

Diego Velázquez

1599–1660

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