The meaning of the orange picker is linked here to the theme of the ages of life; one of the young men reaches into the tree with its abundance of fruit, while the second is distracted, the old man laboriously reaches for the fruit, the children hardly pay any attention to them. Object Type: painting. Date: 1877/78. Dimensions: height: 98 cm (38.5 in); width: 78 cm (30.7 in). Medium: oil and egg tempera on panel. Collection: Alte Nationalgalerie. Die Lebensalter (Orangenbild) (1877-78)
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