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At the end of the 19th century, the painting belonged for Sr. Charles Robinson power.
Later the work of art belonged to the Frederick Lucas Cook collection, but only until the 1955, because The National Gallery of Scotland in Edimbourg bought the work for 57.000 pounds.
The size of the painting is 100'50 cm x 119'5 cm (framed: 148.00 x 128.60 x 7.60 cm), The main material used was oil canvas because is a still life, opaque. The painting is inn The National Gallery of Scotland at the present.
In the painting appeared an old woman appears in the moment when she is frying eggs in a clay pot over a portable stove, stirring the oil with a wooden spoon while she prepares another egg. She looks up to a boy on the left of the painting with an expression of blindness. The boy has a bottle of wine and a melon. In the background we can see a basket of esparto. And in the foreground, on the floor we can see a copper cooking pot and to the right on a table we can see: a mortar, a plate with a knife, an onion and pottery jars. The old woman can be family of the painter and the boy who is on the left can be a messenger, he appeared in a lot of Velázquez' works. Velázquez was inspired by Nordic pictures of kitchens.
Composition is simple, with a few characters but is very successful. It is organized into an oval shape. The scene doesn't have movement.
The contrasts of light and shadow is creater with a dark background. The objects appeared very natural due to the virtuosity that the painter had to show us the brightness and textures: rough, like melon and spoon, and polished in the egg and glass.
The colours are dark . The headscarf of the old woman, the eggs, the plate and the pot are white patches that contrast with the dark background. The brush strokes are thick.
The drawing is very well made, the outlines are very clear, but we see that the artist interests are the light and the color.
The meaning of this work of art is that seems a realistic painting, it can be a visual reflection of the senses of touch and vision;the old woman almost blind, is trying to touch with the spoon in her hands and the boy is looking at the variety of the objects on the table.
We can see on this painting characteristics of Baroque: composition predominantly diagonal lines and curves with varied colors, contrasts of light and shadow, unimportance of the line, use of oil painting, we can see the realism of the work.
Velázquez was influence by Caravaggio an Italian painter, Velázquez was be able to appreciate the novelty of uniting of the Flemish cooking topics with the naturalistic technique of Caravaggio.
Later the work of art belonged to the Frederick Lucas Cook collection, but only until the 1955, because The National Gallery of Scotland in Edimbourg bought the work for 57.000 pounds.
The size of the painting is 100'50 cm x 119'5 cm (framed: 148.00 x 128.60 x 7.60 cm), The main material used was oil canvas because is a still life, opaque. The painting is inn The National Gallery of Scotland at the present.
In the painting appeared an old woman appears in the moment when she is frying eggs in a clay pot over a portable stove, stirring the oil with a wooden spoon while she prepares another egg. She looks up to a boy on the left of the painting with an expression of blindness. The boy has a bottle of wine and a melon. In the background we can see a basket of esparto. And in the foreground, on the floor we can see a copper cooking pot and to the right on a table we can see: a mortar, a plate with a knife, an onion and pottery jars. The old woman can be family of the painter and the boy who is on the left can be a messenger, he appeared in a lot of Velázquez' works. Velázquez was inspired by Nordic pictures of kitchens.
Composition is simple, with a few characters but is very successful. It is organized into an oval shape. The scene doesn't have movement.
The contrasts of light and shadow is creater with a dark background. The objects appeared very natural due to the virtuosity that the painter had to show us the brightness and textures: rough, like melon and spoon, and polished in the egg and glass.
The colours are dark . The headscarf of the old woman, the eggs, the plate and the pot are white patches that contrast with the dark background. The brush strokes are thick.
The drawing is very well made, the outlines are very clear, but we see that the artist interests are the light and the color.
The meaning of this work of art is that seems a realistic painting, it can be a visual reflection of the senses of touch and vision;the old woman almost blind, is trying to touch with the spoon in her hands and the boy is looking at the variety of the objects on the table.
We can see on this painting characteristics of Baroque: composition predominantly diagonal lines and curves with varied colors, contrasts of light and shadow, unimportance of the line, use of oil painting, we can see the realism of the work.
Velázquez was influence by Caravaggio an Italian painter, Velázquez was be able to appreciate the novelty of uniting of the Flemish cooking topics with the naturalistic technique of Caravaggio.
Sources used in this project:
www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/artists-a-z/v/artist/diego-velazquez/object/an-old-woman-cooking-eggs-ng-2180
http://mydailyartdisplay.wordpress.com/2012/09/07/an-old-woman-cooking-eggs-by-velazquez/
http://www.selectividad.tv/S_A_1_2_5_S_vieja_friendo_huevos_de_diego_velazquez.html
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vieja_friendo_huevos
