The Farmers' Lunch

{{Short description|1618 painting by Spanish artist Diego Velázquez}}

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|title=The Farmers' Lunch

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|image_size=300px

|artist=Diego Velázquez

|other_language_1=Spanish

|other_title_1=Almuerzo de campesinos

|year= 1617

|medium=Oil on canvas

|height_metric=96

|width_metric=112

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|museum=Museum of Fine Arts

|city=Budapest

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The Farmers' Lunch (Almuerzo de campesinos) is one of the earliest paintings by the Spanish artist Diego Velázquez. Painted in oil on canvas in 1617, it combines a still life of food and drink with a depiction of three comic farmers, whose physiognomy the artist studies closely. The composition shows a younger man gesturing with his right hand to reinforce the story coming from his half-open lips, and an older man listening attentively while holding his cup up to a woman so she can refill it with wine. The still life includes fish, bread, a carrot, a lemon, and a copper vessel.De Herrera a Velázquez. El primer naturalismo en Sevilla, exhibition catalogue, Bilbao / Sevilla, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao-Fundación Focus-Abengoa, 2006 (Spanish)

The Farmers' Lunch composition is very similar to another painting by Velázquez, The Lunch (c. 1617).