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An Old Woman Cooking Eggs
Velázquez was eighteen or nineteen when he painted this remarkable picture. It clearly demonstrates his flair for painting people and everyday objects directly from life. His fascination with contrasting materials and textures and the play of light and shadow on opaque and reflective surfaces resulted in brilliant passages of painting, especially the eggs cooking in hot oil and the varied domestic…
Creator
- Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez
- Diego Velázquez
Subject
- cooking utensils
- Early Baroque
- genre pictures
Type of item
- <paintings by form>
Medium
- oil painting (technique)
- Oil painting
Creator
- Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez
- Diego Velázquez
Subject
- cooking utensils
- Early Baroque
- genre pictures
Type of item
- <paintings by form>
Medium
- oil painting (technique)
- Oil painting
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Creation date
- 1618
- 1618
Current location
- Scottish National Gallery
Provenance
- Purchased with the aid of the Art Fund and a Treasury Grant 1955
Identifier
- UK_280_024
Extent
- 100.50 x 119.50 cm (framed: 148.00 x 128.60 x 7.60 cm)
Language
- English
- eng
Relations
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2471800
Year
- 1618
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2019-09-10T19:17:51.640Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2019-09-10T19:17:51.640Z