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One of his most successful paintings was The Blind Beggar. He painted the original in 1852 (Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp) and made a reduced copy which is in the National Gallery, London. [4] The painting was extremely popular in the 19th century and was repeatedly copied after it had entered the National Gallery's collection. [13]
Old Jewish Man with a Boy or Blind Beggar with a Boy is an oil on canvas painting by Pablo Picasso, from 1903. It was made in Barcelona , Spain , and characteristic of his Blue Period . [ 1 ] Picasso later moved to Paris, where he sold the work to Sergei Shchukin , whose collection was seized by the Soviet state after the October Revolution ...
Tío Paquete is an oil painting from around 1819–1820 by the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya. It is currently in the collection of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum [1] in Madrid. Tío Paquete was a contemporary figure, an old blind beggar well known to Madrileños in the early 19th century. He would sit on the steps of the church of San Felipe ...
In 1871, the painting was welcomed into the rooms of the new town hall converted into a museum. In the Catalogue of paintings exhibited in the gallery of the museum of Bergues written by the painter and restorer Pierre-Antoine Verlinde (1801–1877), the Beggar playing the hurdy-gurdy, under number 97, is attributed to José de Ribera. It is ...
David shows us a fallen hero, old and blind, begging in the street with a young child when one of his former soldiers, astonished, recognises him. Belisarius Begging for Alms, 1784, 101 × 115 cm, Louvre. The setting is Antique: sober, austere and overwhelming architecture is placed behind the depiction of harsh conditions.
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The painting depicts an impoverished blind beggar singing in the street to the music of his hurdy-gurdy, an instrument traditionally associated with street singers.The hurdy-gurdy, portrayed in great detail in de la Tour's canvas, works by means of a hand turned wheel rubbing against a set of strings, whose pitch can be adjusted by hand operated wedges.
The Blind Girl (1856) is a painting by John Everett Millais which depicts two itinerant beggars, presumed to be sisters, one of whom is a blind musician, her concertina on her lap. They are resting by the roadside after a rainstorm , before travelling to the town of Winchelsea , visible in the background.