Spanish
Paintings by Spanish
![A Man and a Child eating Grapes](/media/33641/n-2526-00-000009-hd.jpg?cc=0,0.061152061152061149,0,0.1526071526071526&width=576&height=576&v=1d6543f9fa6f440&bgcolor=fff)
A man and child are seated at a table. The man looks attentively at the child, who turns away and picks a grape from a bunch nearby. The rest of the composition is only roughly sketched in; the child’s left arm, the man’s body and the table are unfinished.The painting was once thought to be by a...
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![Landscape with Figures](/media/33346/n-1376-00-000012-hd.jpg?cc=0,0,0.2734375,0&width=576&height=576&v=1d6543caa812690&bgcolor=fff)
This sketchily painted landscape is dotted with groups of figures in seventeenth-century Spanish dress. We are not certain where the scene is set, although it may be the forest of the Palace of El Pardo, north-west of Madrid. This palace had vast hunting grounds, which are probably those represen...
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![The Magdalen (?)](/media/33737/n-2615-00-000017-hd.jpg?cc=0.0687323525040868,0.16915211238639838,0.095333630554317025,0.1802628399736079&width=576&height=576&v=1d654409c1154f0&bgcolor=fff)
Probably Spanish
The ointment jar the woman holds is an attribute of Mary Magdalene, but this seems to be a portrait of a woman in the guise of the saint. The sitter’s hairstyle and distinctive necklace can be associated with early sixteenth-century medals and specifically with an anonymous portrait of the Spanis...
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