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Distributing Alms
In this painting a crowd of beggars and cripples jostles outside a church charity. Bread is handed out through the barred window. There is probably a Christian subtext in it but the poor are not depicted with much sympathy, quarreling and stealing from one another. Deprived drifters were often seen as parasites that threatened the fragile social order and depicting them as foolish and grotesque wa…
Creator
Type of item
- Visual arts
- paintings (visual works)
- http://udcdata.info/065280
- Visual Works (hierarchy name)
Creator
Type of item
- Visual arts
- paintings (visual works)
- http://udcdata.info/065280
- Visual Works (hierarchy name)
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Nationalmuseum, Sweden
Provenance
- Transferred 1866 from Kongl. Museum.
Identifier
- NM 679
- 17682
Extent
- Mått 35 x 53 cm
Format
- Oil on wood
Providing country
- Sweden
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2017-01-11T14:08:55.010Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2017-01-11T14:26:24.718Z