A Man and a Child eating Grapes
- Artist: Spanish
- Date: probably 19th century
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Museum: The National Gallery
- Collection record: The National Gallery website
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About this artwork
This is "A Man and a Child eating Grapes", painted in the Spanish style. You can see the man attentively looking at the child, who's turning away to pick a grape from a bunch nearby. The rest of the composition is quite rough, with the child's left arm, the man's body, and the table only roughly sketched out.
At one point, this painting was thought to be by a 17th-century Spanish artist, possibly even Velázquez or Pedro Núñez de Villavicencio. However, it's now believed that it might actually be a copy of an original from that time period. It's likely that an artist working in the late 18th or early 19th century painted this work as part of their training.
The medium used is oil on canvas, and the painting itself was first recorded at the Earl of Clare sale in London in the mid-19th century.
See it in person
A Man and a Child eating Grapes hangs in The National Gallery on Trafalgar Square, London — free to enter. Point your phone at any artwork there and audioguide.london plays a free audio guide in six languages — no app download needed.
