Die kleine Obsthändlerin,

um 1670/75

Material / Technology / Carrier

Leinwand

Dimensions of the object

144,3 x 107,6 cm

Displayed

AP OG Saal IX

Department

Spanische Malerei

Genre

Malerei

Inventory number

497

Acquisition

1768 als Vermächtnis des Hofkammerrates Franz Joseph von Dufresne erworben

Stock

Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Alte Pinakothek München

Citation

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Die kleine Obsthändlerin, um 1670/75, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Alte Pinakothek München, URL: https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/en/artwork/o5xrMRP47X (Last updated on 30.01.2023)

A young girl and a boy are cheerfully counting the day’s takings that they have presumably earned from selling fruit. The painting is dated to a relative late period in Murillo’s oeuvre—it was created at least twenty years after the ‘Grape and Melon Eaters’. The colouration is now lighter, the application of paint more liberal—even the poverty of the children is shown in a softer light.