Clubfooted Boy, 1642

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Artist: Ribera

Ribera Paintings

1591 - 1652 Spain, Baroque

Clubfooted Boy, 1642

Oil on canvas, 64.57 x 36.22 inches [164 x 92 cm]

Musee du Louvre, Paris

Figurative Art

Standing in a sweeping landscape, dressed in hatcbed brown clothes, barefoot and shoul

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Ribera Paintings

1591 - 1652 Spain, Baroque

Clubfooted Boy, 1642

Oil on canvas, 64.57 x 36.22 inches [164 x 92 cm]

Musee du Louvre, Paris

Figurative Art

Standing in a sweeping landscape, dressed in hatcbed brown clothes, barefoot and shouldering a crutch, his disability is evident: his deformed foot is at the centre of the spectator's field of vision. In his left band, this pitiable creature holds a note with the inscription: "DA MIHI ELIMO/SINAM PROPTER/ AMOREM DEI" ("Give me alms, for the love of God").
Described in this way, the painting of Ribera Clubfooted Boy would appear to be an image of misery, humiliation and begging. Yet what meets the eye, contradicts such an unequivocal statement. The boy whose face is aged beyond his years stands proud and upright againt the landscape in the background. He looks directly downwards at the spectator with a relaxed gaze of experience and superiority. The boy's mouth is opened in a relatively unattractive gummy grin that permits no patronizing sympathy. Ribera has created a monument to the justice of God. He shows up our hierarchical thinking, our worldly expectations of the gratitude of the poor, to whom we give alms. The apparently miserable, valueless individual stands here like a monument admonisbing us to remember that all creatures are equal before God. This boy depicted by Ribera is not begging for mercy. He is claiming his right to it.

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