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Art Appreciation Lecture Series 2015 Meet the Masters: Highlights from the Scottish National Gallery Velázquez’s An Old Woman Cooking Eggs Dr Lisa Beaven 4 March 2015 Lecture summary: This lecture places Diego Velázquez’s An Old Woman Cooking Eggs in its social and artistic context, beginning with an analysis of Seville in the first two decades of the seventeenth century, then moving onto Velázquez’s experience in the studio of Pacheco, his teacher, and the intellectual stimulus this environment provided. A broader discussion of genre painting in Europe follows, with the focus shifting to the core question of the relationship between Velázquez’s bodegones and Caravaggio’s paintings. The lecture concludes with a detailed examination of the painting in question, and its possible relationship to life on the streets of Seville. Slide list: 1. Diego Velázquez, An Old Woman Cooking Eggs, 1618, oil on canvas, 101 x 120 cm, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh. 2. Anon., Map of Spain. 3. Diego Velazquez, Las Meninas, 1656, oil on canvas, 318 x 276 cm, Museo del Prado. 4. ‘A Sixteenth century view of Seville’, from Georg Braum and Frans Hogenberg, I Civitas Orbis Terrarum, Cologne, 1572-1617, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. 5. ‘A panoramic View of Seville’ (detail), by Jan Janssen van Aernhem, a print-publisher in Amsterdam, who obtained the permit to print and publish this engraving in 1617. This edition possibly 1700. 6. Alonso Sánchez Coello (attrib.), View of Seville, sixteenth century, Museo de América. 7. ‘Main Façade of Seville’s Cathedral’, engraving attributed to Pedro Tortolero, 1738, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. 8. Bartolemé Murillo, Sts Justa and Rufina, 1655-66, oil on canvas, Museo de Bellas Artes, Seville. 9. ‘View of the Tower of the Giralda in Seville’, an illustration to the ‘Fiestas de la Santa Iglesia de Sevilla’, etching, 1672, by Matias de Arteaga y Alfaro, British Museum. 10. Diego Velázquez, Portrait of Francisco Pacheco, c. 1620, oil on canvas, 40 x 36 cm, Museo del Prado, Madrid. 11. Francisco Pacheco, Last Judgement, Musée Goya, Castres, France. 12. Juan Estaban, Market Stall, 1606, oil on canvas, 129 x 167.5 cm, Museo de Bellas Artes, Granada. 13. Bartolomeo Passerotti, The Butcher’s Shop, 1580’s, oil on canvas, 112 x 152 cm, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica, Rome. 14. Pieter Aertsen, Butcher’s Stall with the Flight into Egypt, 1551, oil on panel, 123.2 x 149.9 cm, University Art Collections, Uppsala University. 15. Engraving by Jacob Matham after a painting by Pieter Aertsen of a Kitchen Scene with the Supper of Emmaus in the background, 1603, 24.5 x 32.8 cm, British Museum. 16. Diego Velázquez, Christ in the House of Mary and Martha, c. 1620, 60 x 103.5 cm, National Gallery, London Proudly sponsored by 17. Vincenzo Campi, Fruit Seller, c. 1580, oil on canvas, 145 x 215 cm, Pinacotheca di Brera, Milan. 18. Unknown Artist, Kitchen Scene, c. 1604, oil on canvas, The Prelate’s Gallery, Archbishop’s Palace, Seville. 19. Annibale Carracci, Self-portrait with other figures, oil on canvas, 60 x 48 cm, Milan, Pinacotheca di Brera. 20. Annibale Carracci, Boy with a Twisted Spine, red chalk drawing, 26.4 x 22.5 cm, Chatsworth, Devonshire Collection. 21. Annibale Carracci, The Bean-eater, oil on canvas, 57 x 68 cm, Galleria Colonna, Rome. 22. Ottavio Leoni, Portrait of Caravaggio (detail), c. 1621-5, red and black chalk drawing with white heightening on blue paper, 23.4 x 16.3 cm. 23. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Cardsharps, c. 1594-5, 94.2 x 131.3 cm, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth. 24. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, The Gypsy Fortune Teller, c. 1594, oil on canvas, 99 x 131 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris. 25. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Musicians, c. 1595, oil on canvas, 87.9 x 115.9 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 26. Valentin de Boulogne, Cardsharps, 1620s, oil on canvas, 94.5 x 137 cm, Gemäldegalerie, Dresden. 27. Lionello Spada, The Concert, c. 1615, oil on canvas, 143 x 172 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris. 28. Juan Sánchez Cotán, Still Life with Game Fowl, Vegetables and Fruit, 1602, oil on canvas, 68 x 89 cm, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. 29. Anon, Still Life with Fish, oil on canvas, 66 x 84 cm, formerly Teresa Heinz Collection. 30. Jusepe de Ribera, The Sense of Taste, c. 1616, oil on canvas, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford. 31. Jusepe de Ribera, The Sense of Smell, oil on canvas, c. 1613-16, 114 x 88 cm, Juan Abello Collection. 32. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Supper at Emmaus, 1601, oil on canvas, 141 x 196 cm, National Gallery, London. 33. Diego Velazquez, Three Musicians, c. 1617-21, oil on canvas, 87 x 110 cm, Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. 34. Diego Velázquez, The Luncheon (Tavern Scene with Two men and a Boy), 1617-21, oil on canvas, 108.5 x 102 cm, Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. 35. Diego Velázquez, The Luncheon (Tavern Scene with Two Men and a Girl), 1617-21, 96 x 112 cm, Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest. 36. Diego Velázquez, Kitchen Scene with the Supper at Emmaus, c. 1618, oil on canvas, 55 x 118 cm, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin. 37. Diego Velazquez, Juan de Pareja, c. 1650, oil on canvas, 81.3 x 69.9 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 38. Diego Velázquez, An Old Woman cooking Eggs, 1618, oil on canvas, 101 x 120 cm, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh. 39. Diego Velázquez, The Waterseller of Seville, 1623, oil on canvas, 106.7 x 81 cm, Wellington Museum, Apsley House, London. Reference: Michael Clarke (ed.), Velázquez in Seville, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1996. Veronique Gerard-Powell, Velazquez, Musé du Louvre, 2015. Tanya Tiffany, Diego Velazquez’s early Paintings and the Culture of Seventeenth century Seville, 2012, Penn. State University Press. For access to all past lecture notes visit: http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/members/current-members/member-events/meet-the-masters/ .