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| Title | A Franciscan Monk Distributing Food to Peasants | |
| Collection | Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery | |
| Artist | Attributed to Laer, Pieter van (Dutch painter and printmaker, 1599-ca.1642) Attributed to Miel, Jan (Flemish painter and engraver, 1599-1664, active in Italy) |
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| Date Earliest | about 1599 | |
| Date Latest | about 1642 | |
| Description | This small painting belongs to a type known as bambocciate, literally 'little doll', named after a group of artists led by Pieter van Laer who was nicknamed Il Bamboccio because of his hunchback. Van Laer was one of a group of Netherlandish artists working in Rome and producing scenes of everyday life. In this example, a Franciscan saint hands out bowls of soup to the poor. This work could have formed one of a series of Seven Acts of Mercy, burying the dead, tending the hungry, the thirsty, the stranger, the naked, the sick and the prisoner. |
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| Current Accession Number | 1999Q16 | |
| Subject | everyday life (peasants); religion (Franciscan saint distributing food) | |
| Measurements | 32.7 x 27 cm.0 cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on panel (hardwood {poplar}) | |
| Acquisition Details | Lent by Sir Denis Mahon, CBE, FBA 1999. | |
| Provenance | Christie's sale, 1910, bought by 2nd Marquess of Clanricarde [?]; bequeathed by 2nd Marquess of Clanricarde to the Earl of Harewood; Christie's sale, London, 29 June 1951, lot 65, bought by Denis Mahon. | |
| Principal Exhibitions | Discovering the Italian Baroque: The Denis Mahon Collection, National Gallery, London, 1997, cat. no. 50. | |
| Publications | Finaldi, G., and Kitson, M., Discovering the Italian Baroque, The Denis Mahon Collection, National Gallery, London, 1997, no. 50. | |
| Notes | The painting is to be bequeathed to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery on Sir Denis Mahon's death. | |
| Rights Owner | Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery | |
| Author | Dr Patricia Smyth | |