Juan Fernández received the nickname “El Labrador” (“The Farmworker)” because he lived in the country, where he specialized in paintings of fruit. Their quality made them popular in the English and Spanish courts, and the artist´s name was mentioned with admiration by the earliest historians of Spanish art. Among that fruit, he developed a special interest in depicting bunches of grapes, for which he employed chiaroscuro technique, placing them in front of a dark background and using light and shadows to shape their volumes and create a powerful effect of illusion and reality. Through this technique, he developed a great capacity to individualize, which allowed him not only to specify the different varieties of grapes, but also their varying states of ripeness. Several of the paintings of bunches of grapes in which “El Labrador“ specialized were organized in pairs, such as P07905 and P07906, or this work and P07904.