# Beggar Resting [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CERUTI, Giacomo]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 128 x 142 cm ## Commentary This full-length, almost life-size, depiction of a poor old man was designed to fit over a door or window, as suggested by the low viewpoint and the traces of brown preparatory underdrawing. The stick of the sitting figure of about seventy years of age, the knapsack on his shoulders, and the wicker basket all identify him as a pilgrim rather than as a beggar seeking alms. ## Related artworks - [Boy with a Basket of Fish]() - [Boy with a Basket]() - [Boy with a Basket]() - [Encounter in the Wood]() - [Evening at the Piazza]() - [Girl with a Distaff]() - [Little Beggar Girl and Woman Spinning]() - [Portrait of a Capuchin Friar]() - [Portrait of a Country Woman]() - [Portrait of a Man]() - [Portrait of a Smoking Man in Oriental Habit]() - [Portrait of a Woman]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()