Grape and melon eaters
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| Grape and melon eaters |
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| Bartolomé Esteban Murillo , around 1645–1655 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 146 × 104 cm |
| Alte Pinakothek , Munich |
Grape and Melon Eaters is a painting by the Spanish Baroque painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo .
description
The picture shows two street boys around ten years old eating fruit . The environment is not further defined. The street boy on the left is obviously enjoying a grape while the one on the right has his cheeks filled with a piece of honeydew melon . Apparently the boys share their meal, because the boy on the left is also holding a piece of melon in his hand, while the boy on the right looks expectantly at the grape panicle.
comment
What is striking is the contrast between the two boys' satisfaction and their wretched clothes. Still, Murillo managed to reconcile the two.
The painter's moral appeal is that one can think of one's fellow human beings despite one's own poverty.
The painting style, which softened the rough environment with a soft ductus , was named after the painter "Murillo" until the 19th century.
literature
- Wieland Schmied (ed.): Harenberg Museum of Painting. 525 masterpieces from seven centuries. Dortmund: Harenberg Lexikon Verlag, 1999. ISBN 3-611-00814-1