The Soup Kitchen
Artist
Antonio de Puga
(Spanish, 1602 - 1648)
Dateca. 1630
Object number58.0070
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensions47 1/2 × 63 1/2 in. (120.7 × 161.3 cm)
frame: 55 1/4 × 74 1/4 × 4 in. (140.3 × 188.6 × 10.2 cm)
frame: 55 1/4 × 74 1/4 × 4 in. (140.3 × 188.6 × 10.2 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineMuseo de Arte de Ponce. The Luis A. Ferré Foundation, Inc.
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On View
Not on viewDescriptionThis painting highlights the virtue of charity and good deeds, typical of Spanish religious art of the seventeenth century. A sitting woman ladles out soup from a large jar, wrapped in a white cloth inside a wicker basket to keep warm. The figures waiting in line represent disfavored and marginalized types, among them a greying man with a traveler's hat, an elder walking with a crutch, and a widow, suggested by her black habit and hair covering. The boy in ragged clothes is probably an orphan.
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