Bathed in sunlight, an attractive young woman in dutch country dress leans from an open window in one corner of a vine-covered cottage. She reaches out to drop coins in the hat of a young man outiside her window, who is wearing a patched and dirty tunic. He is soliciting charity on behalf of an elderly woman, who waits beside him in a wheeled, hand-drawn conveyance. A glimpse of a distant landscape is visible over the brick wall to the right. Although alma-tadema was only 20 when he painted this scene, he already shows in it the narrative skills that will bring him such success with his later re-creations of life in greek and roman antiquity. This genre scene was the artist's first major commission. Object Type: painting. Date: 1856. Place of creation: Antwerp, Belgium. Dimensions: height: 63.5 cm (25 in); width: 54 cm (21.2 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Walters Art Museum. Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, RA, OM - The Blind Beggar - Walters 372761
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