The Little Fruit Seller
Bartolome Esteban Murillo
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- The Little Fruit-Seller
Bartolome Esteban Murillo
Date: 1670 - 1675
Style: Baroque
Genre: genre painting
Oil on canvas, 149 x 113 cm
Alte Pinakothek, Munich
A little girl with the face of a Madonna, a contented little boy examining the earnings she holds in her hand and a basket full of grapes which is, in itself, a still-life of the highest quality. Does this painting show us a life free from worry?
The apparent poverty of the two figures, their unchild-like but necessary employment suggest a sense of hopelessness and misery. And yet these children seem to exude an air of rapt serenity and contented enjoyment of life. Herein lies Murillo's Christian message: because these children do not see their poverty as a burden, and because they do not regard their existence as joyless, they are beautiful and "dignified". It is thus a painting that could adorn the walls of any ruler's palace.
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