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1901. Oil on canvas.Not on display
Within the rural costumbrism, so characteristic of the final years of the century, in which it overlaps with social realism and confronts modernist realism, this canvas by a virtually unknown author is a significant example of prosaism tinged with a certain sentimental, immediate and simplistic delicacy. The gesture of the mother, who brings the little boy close to the lambs as they eat in order to familiarise him with nature, is expressed with an almost illuminating immediacy. The figure of the boy, undoubtedly the older brother – who contemplates the scene with a smile – completes the composition with a skilful luminous liveliness.
Pérez Sánchez, A.E (com), El niño en el Museo del Prado, Madrid, Ministerio de Cultura, Dirección General de Bellas Artes, 1983, p.154
