Old Woman Cooking Eggs by Diego Velázquez
Old Woman Cooking Eggs by Diego Velázquez
Old Woman Cooking Eggs (1618)
Diego Velázquez | Baroque | Oil on canvas
An old woman cooks eggs in a clay dish over a small fire while a boy stands beside her holding a melon and a flask of wine. Every object looks so real you can almost smell the cooking!
Did you know? Velázquez was only 18 or 19 when he painted this in Seville, yet the gleaming brass, the glazed clay pots and the eggs setting in hot oil already look good enough to touch!
Original held at Scottish National Gallery
Museum-quality giclée print on archival Enhanced Matte Art paper (200gsm) with fade-resistant pigment inks rated for 100+ years. Also available as gallery-wrapped canvas and custom framed.
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