🖼️ Old Woman Cooking Eggs · Diego Velázquez

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Old Woman Frying Eggs is a genre painting by Diego Velázquez, produced during his Seville period. The date is not precisely known but is thought to be around the turn of 1618 before his definitive move to Madrid in 1623. The painting is in the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh. Velázquez frequently used working-class characters in early paintings like this one, in many cases using his family as models; the old woman here also appears in his Christ in the House of Martha and Mary (1618). There is some dispute about what cooking process is actually depicted with some suggesting not frying but poaching, leading to an alternative title of the painting, Old Woman Cooking Eggs or Old Woman Poaching Eggs. Diego Velázquez, 1618 — painted at 19. Canvas and oil paint. 100.5 × 119.5 cm. In the National Galleries Scotland. Wiki link

🖼️ Old Woman Cooking Eggs · Diego Velázquez