Lot Essay
Two other works, in all likelihood by the same hand, are The Frugal Meal in the Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent and the so-called Spanish Family, in the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (see P. Eeckhout, 'Le Repas frugal du Musée de Gand,' in Varia Velazqueña: Homenage a Velázquez en el III centenario de su muerte, 1660-1960, Madrid, 1960, I, pp. 373-7; II, pls. 165-6).