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VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y: Peasants at the Table (El Almuerzo)

🖼 Peasants at the Table (El Almuerzo), c. 1620
Oil on canvas
96 × 112 cm
Budapest, Hungary

Golden light spills across a humble table where three figures share bread and wine, rendered with Velázquez's masterful chiaroscuro and loose brushwork. This intimate domestic scene elevates peasant life to fine art, challenging aristocratic subject hierarchies in early 17th-century Spain.

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