Grape and Melon Eaters

Children Eating Grapes and a Melon is a 1645-1650 oil on canvas painting by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, now in room XIII of the Alte Pinakothek in Munich. Along with religious works, realistic and naturalistic genre scenes like this form one of the most oft-repeated themes in the artist's oeuvre, often centred on children, as also seen in Children Playing Dice and The Young Beggar.

Almost all of these genre works by Murillo are now in collections outside Spain, perhaps indicating that they were commissioned for some of the many Flemish merchants based in Seville and destined for north European art dealers such as Nicolás de Omazur, an important collector and client of Murillo. This work and Children Playing Dice were both acquired by Maximilian II Emanuel, governor of the Spanish Netherlands in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and they became the first two works by the artist to ent…

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