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Feeding the Hungry
Also titled De hongerigen spijzen
Michael Sweerts (Brussels, 1618–1664)
1646 - 1649
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 75 cm x width 99 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Commissie voor Fotoverkoop
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
In the Catholic Church, the ‘Seven Works of Mercy’ served as a guiding principle for acts of human kindness. They are based on Christ’s teachings, as described in the Gospel of Matthew. Sweerts painted his series of – four of which four pictures are in the Rijksmuseum – while in Rome. His humble street scenes depict the poorest of the poor with penetrating insight.
