An old woman cooks eggs in an earthenware dish over a small stove while a boy arrives with a flask and a melon. Velázquez painted this bodegón, or kitchen scene, in Seville when he was about nineteen. Hard light from the left picks out the woman, her pots and the eggs, and leaves the boy and the wall behind in deep shadow.
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Scholars still argue over whether she is frying or poaching the eggs. The same model appears in Velázquez's Christ in the House of Martha and Mary.
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