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Description: | Signed: yes Description: On a circular panel is depicted a cobbler who stands by the corner of a building, holding a roll of leather. A young girl sits on a stool beside the cobbler and points to the sole of her shoe which is falling off. Miel spent much of his life working in Rome where he came under the influence of the bamboccianti, who specialised in scenes such as this of the poorer classes. Miel began to paint bambocciate after his arrival in Rome in the early 1630s, and in fact one of the first paintings he produced there was a work entitled The Cobbler. | Subjects: | hen); figure; landscape; everyday life; trade and industry; buildings and gardens animal (cat | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Miel, Jan (Flemish painter and engraver, 1599-1664, active in Italy) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8542... | Go to resource |
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