# A Beggar Boy with a Piece of Pie

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## Artwork

- Artist: [MASTER of the Blue Jeans](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/master-of-the-blue-jeans-r3158fc50f95012>)
- Date: 1651-1700
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 86 x 71 cm

## Commentary

In this painting the artist compellingly captures the child&#39;s intense, frightened gaze as he beseechingly looks at the observer. That the forlorn character desperately needs help is demonstrated by his poor, improvised meal as well as his curious garb, characterized by a tattered oversized jacket, ransacked from who knows where. The latter detail was attentively investigated by the master, who even rendered the weave of the fabric, a blue twill with a white warp, a type of cotton cloth popular in Genoa at the time and thus promptly called &#34;jeans&#34; in English-speaking countries \(from &#34;Genoa&#34; attested since the sixteenth century\).

## Related artworks

- [A Meal with a Woman and Two Children](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/master-of-the-blue-jeans-r3158fc50f95012/a-meal-with-a-woman-and-two-children-r30475df5721f5a>)
- [The Barber&#39;s Shop](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/master-of-the-blue-jeans-r3158fc50f95012/the-barbers-shop-rc209f7bdb125fb>)
- [Woman Begging with Two Children](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/master-of-the-blue-jeans-r3158fc50f95012/woman-begging-with-two-children-r437bb961e53c8f>)
- [Woman Spinning with Two Children](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/master-of-the-blue-jeans-r3158fc50f95012/woman-spinning-with-two-children-rf801475ad30e6f>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)