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Old Woman Frying Eggs
is a
genre painting
by
Diego Velázquez
. Its date of production is not definitively known, but is thought to have been completed around 1618, before his definitive move from
Seville
to
Madrid
in 1623. Velázquez frequently used working-class characters in early paintings like this one, in many cases using his family as models; the old woman here also appears in his
Christ in the House of Martha and Mary
(1618). The painting is in the
National Gallery of Scotland
in
Edinburgh
.
Painting:
Diego Velázquez
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