''The Farmers' Lunch'' (''Almuerzo de campesinos'') is one of the earliest paintings by the
Spanish
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artist
Diego Velázquez
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (baptised 6 June 15996 August 1660) was a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the Noble court, court of King Philip IV of Spain, Philip IV of Spain and Portugal, and of the Spanish Golden Age. He i ...
. Painted in oil on canvas in 1617, it combines a
still life
A still life (: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly wikt:inanimate, inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or artificiality, human-m ...
of food and drink with a depiction of three comic farmers, whose
physiognomy
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the artist studies closely. The composition shows a younger man gesturing with his right hand to reinforce the story coming from his half-open lips, and an older man listening attentively while holding his cup up to a woman so she can refill it with wine. The still life includes fish, bread, a carrot, a lemon, and a copper vessel.
[''De Herrera a Velázquez. El primer naturalismo en Sevilla'', exhibition catalogue, Bilbao / Sevilla, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao-Fundación Focus-Abengoa, 2006 (Spanish)]
''The Farmers' Lunch'' composition is very similar to another painting by Velázquez, ''
The Lunch'' (c. 1617).
See also
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List of works by Diego Velázquez
References
1617 paintings
Seville-period paintings by Diego Velázquez
Paintings by Diego Velázquez
Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest)
Food and drink paintings
Genre paintings
Paintings of fruit
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