# The Pie Eaters [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MURILLO, Bartolomé Esteban]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 124 x 102 cm ## Commentary One of Murillo's favourite themes among secular subjects is the depiction of boys "of the baskets", as those encountered in Cervantes's novel <i>Rinconete y Cortadillo</i> \(1613\) are called. Such little boys ran errands throughout the city of Seville, selling food or simple carrying it for shoppers from the market to their home. These are poor boys, as indicated by the clothing. As is usual in Murillo's paintings of children, they are poor but not sad, they are smiling. ## Related artworks - [A Girl and her Duenna]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Angels' Kitchen]() - [Annunciation]() - [Baking of Flat Cakes]() - [Baptism of Christ]() - [Birth of the Virgin]() - [Boy with a Dog]() - [Boys Eating Grapes and Melon]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()