Beggar in art: paintings, drawings and prints

Drawing of a Man disguised as a Beggar, Leonardo da Vinci

Drawing of a Man disguised as a Beggar, c. 1517.

Drawing of a Man disguised as a Beggar (museum title)

Leonardo da Vinci (Italian)

Royal Collection, United Kingdom

Saint Alexius

San Alejo (museum title)

José Juárez (Mexican), oil on canvas

National Museum of Art (MUNAL), Mexico City, Mexico

The Parable of the Great Supper, Wilhelm Marstrand

The Parable of the Great Supper, 1869.

Lignelsen om den store nadver (museum title)

Wilhelm Marstrand (Danish), oil on canvas

Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark

Charity, 1560.

Charity (museum title)

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Dutch), engraving

Rijksmuseum, Netherlands

The Fight Between Carnival and Lent, Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Fight Between Carnival and Lent, 1559.

The Fight Between Carnival and Lent (museum title)

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Dutch), oil on panel

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Austria

Mendicant monks receiving alms, John Frederick Lewis

Mendicant monks receiving alms, 1836.

Bedelmonniken ontvangen aalmoezen (museum title)

John Frederick Lewis (British), lithograph with tint stone

Rijksmuseum, Netherlands

The Parable of the Great Supper, 1860s.

Lignelsen om den store nadver (museum title)

Wilhelm Marstrand (Danish), drawing

Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark

Landing in Venice. In the Distance S. Maria delle Salute, Wilhelm Marstrand

Landing in Venice. In the Distance S. Maria delle Salute, c. 1852–1855.

Landstigning ved et palads ved Canal Grande, i baggrunden… (museum title)

Wilhelm Marstrand (Danish), oil on paper, laid down on canvas

Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark

Telemachus Meets Odysseus Disguised as a Beggar at the Swineherd Eumaeus' Hut - Odysseus; Fragment of the Whole Composition, C.W. Eckersberg

Telemachus Meets Odysseus Disguised as a Beggar at the Swineherd Eumaeus' Hut - Odysseus; Fragment of the Whole Composition, 1812.

Telemachos møder Odysseus forklædt som tigger hos hyrden… (museum title)

C.W. Eckersberg (Danish), drawing

Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark

A woman receiving alms, c. 1806–1809.

En kvinde modtager en almisse (museum title)

C.W. Eckersberg (Danish), pencil, pen and black ink

Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark

The Soup of the Poor (Venice), Reinaldo Giudici

The Soup of the Poor (Venice), 1884.

La sopa de los pobres (Venecia) (museum title)

Reinaldo Giudici (Argentinian), oil on canvas

National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Mendigos que se llevan solos en Bordeaux (Beggars Who Get about on Their Own in Bordeaux), Francisco de Goya

Mendigos que se llevan solos en Bordeaux (Beggars Who Get about on Their Own in Bordeaux), 1824–1827.

Mendigos que se llevan solos en Bordeaux (Beggars Who Get… (museum title)

Francisco de Goya (Spanish), black chalk on greenish laid paper

National Gallery of Art, United States

Saints Peter and John Healing the Lame Man, Nicolas Poussin

Saints Peter and John Healing the Lame Man, 1655.

Saints Peter and John Healing the Lame Man (museum title)

Nicolas Poussin (French), oil on canvas

Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States

The Little Beggars, 1890.

The Little Beggars (museum title)

Kamal-ol-Molk (Iranian), oil on canvas

Golestan Palace, Tehran, Iran

Les Sept Œuvres de miséricorde, Caravaggio

Les Sept Œuvres de miséricorde, 1600.

Les Sept Œuvres de miséricorde (museum title)

Caravaggio (Italian), oil on canvas

Pio Monte della Misericordia, Italy

Alighting from a Gondola in Canal Grande in Venice. In the Background Santa Marie delle Salute, Wilhelm Marstrand

Alighting from a Gondola in Canal Grande in Venice. In the Background Santa Marie delle Salute, 1860s.

Landstigning ved Canal Grande i Venedig (museum title)

Wilhelm Marstrand (Danish), pen and brown ink

Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark

No. 14, Takasaki, from the series The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō, Utagawa Hiroshige

No. 14, Takasaki, from the series The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō, c. 1835–1838.

No. 14, Takasaki (museum title)

Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese), colour woodcut on paper

Minneapolis Institute of Art, United States

The Roman dwarf Francesco Ravai, called Bajocco. Full-length, three-quarter profile to the left, 1774–1776.

Den romerske dværg Francesco Ravai, kaldet Bajocco. Hel… (museum title)

Jens Juel (Danish), black chalk

Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark

Telemachus Meets Odysseus Disguised as a Beggar at the Swineherd Eumaeus' Hut - Odysseus; Fragment of the Whole Composition, c. 1812.

Telemachos møder Odysseus forklædt som tigger hos hyrden… (museum title)

C.W. Eckersberg (Danish), drawing

Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark

A Roman Beggar Woman, 1857.

A Roman Beggar Woman (museum title)

Edgar Degas (French)

Birmingham Museums Trust, United Kingdom

The Blind Leading the Blind, Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Blind Leading the Blind, 1568.

The Blind Leading the Blind (museum title)

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Dutch), tempera on canvas

Museo di Capodimonte, Italy

The Beggars, 1568.

The Beggars (museum title)

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Dutch), oil on panel

Department of Paintings, Louvre Museum, France

Girl and Beggar, 1910.

Girl and Beggar (museum title)

John Sloan (American), etching

Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States

Saint Martin and the Beggar, 1597–1599.

Saint Martin and the Beggar (museum title)

Le Greco (Spanish), oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art, United States

Charity, 1559.

Charity (museum title)

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Dutch), pen and brown ink on paper

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Netherlands

"Have Pity on a Poor Blind Man...", C.W. Eckersberg

"Have Pity on a Poor Blind Man...", 1831.

"Ayez pitié d'un pauvre aveugle..." (museum title)

C.W. Eckersberg (Danish), etching

Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark

Beggar with a Crutch (Mendiant a la bequille), Camille Pissarro

Beggar with a Crutch (Mendiant a la bequille), 1897.

Beggar with a Crutch (Mendiant a la bequille) (museum title)

Camille Pissarro (French), lithograph

Prints in the National Gallery of Art, United States

The Roman Dwarf Francesco Ravai, called Bajocco, Jens Juel

The Roman Dwarf Francesco Ravai, called Bajocco, 1773–1776.

Den romerske dværg Francesco Ravai, kaldet Bajocco (museum title)

Jens Juel (Danish), oil on canvas

Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark

The Marauder, 1841.

Le Maraudeur (museum title)

Honoré Daumier (French), lithograph on newsprint

National Gallery of Art, United States

Old Beggar

Gammel tigger (museum title)

Wilhelm Marstrand (Danish), pencil

Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark

For the Love of God, Cornelius Krieghoff

For the Love of God, after 1860.

Pour l'amour du Bon Dieu (museum title)

Cornelius Krieghoff (Canadian), oil on canvas

Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Canada

Velho mendigo, 1916.

Velho mendigo (museum title)

Maria Pardos (Brazilian)

Museu Mariano Procópio, Brazil

Croquis pour une tentation de saint Antoine, Hieronymus Bosch

Croquis pour une tentation de saint Antoine, 1465.

Croquis pour une tentation de saint Antoine (museum title)

Hieronymus Bosch (Dutch), ink

Department of Prints and Drawings, Louvre Museum, France

Christ and the Beggars, 1895.

Christ and the Beggars (museum title)

James Ensor (Belgian), etching

Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent (MSK Gent), Belgium

Mendicant monks, Granada, John Frederick Lewis

Mendicant monks, Granada, 1836.

Bedelmonniken bij een poort te Granada (museum title)

John Frederick Lewis (British), lithograph with tint stone

Rijksmuseum, Netherlands

Beggar in front of St Mary's Church in Kraków, Stanisław Wyspiański

Beggar in front of St Mary's Church in Kraków, 1900.

Dziad proszalny pod kościołem Mariackim w Krakowie (museum title)

Stanisław Wyspiański (Polish), pencil and colored pencil on paper

National Museum in Kraków, Poland

Saint Pierre et saint Jean guérissant le boiteux, Albrecht Dürer

Saint Pierre et saint Jean guérissant le boiteux, 1512.

Saint Pierre et saint Jean guérissant le boiteux (museum title)

Albrecht Dürer (German), engraving on laid paper

National Gallery of Art, United States

Vagrants in a farmer's cottage, Adolph Tidemand

Vagrants in a farmer's cottage, 1852.

Fantefølge i en bondestue (museum title)

Adolph Tidemand (Norwegian), chalk on paper

National Museum of Norway

On a Bridge at Night, 1840s.

On a Bridge at Night (museum title)

Honoré Daumier (French)

Phillips Collection, United States

Cripple. Figure Studies

Krøbling. Figurstudier (museum title)

Wilhelm Marstrand (Danish), pencil

Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark

Go to the Devil, after 1860.

Va au diable (museum title)

Cornelius Krieghoff (Canadian), oil on canvas

Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Canada

The Wine of Saint Martin's Day, Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Wine of Saint Martin's Day, 1566.

The Wine of Saint Martin's Day (museum title)

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Dutch), tempera on canvas

Prado Museum, Spain

Le Jugement dernier, 1450.

Le Jugement dernier (museum title)

Hieronymus Bosch (Dutch), oil on wood panel

Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria

The Old Beggar of Warsaw, Józef Chełmoński

The Old Beggar of Warsaw, 1888.

Dziad warszawski (museum title)

Józef Chełmoński (Polish), pencil on paper

National Museum in Kraków, Poland

The Parable of the Great Supper, 1860s.

Lignelsen om den store nadver (museum title)

Wilhelm Marstrand (Danish), pencil, pen and brown ink

Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark

Travellers in Rome

Matkailijoita Roomassa (museum title)

Eero Järnefelt (Finnish), pencil and ink on paper

Finnish National Gallery, Finland

Alighting from a Gondola in Venice, Wilhelm Marstrand

Alighting from a Gondola in Venice, c. 1852–1855.

Landstigning i Venedig. En tiggergondol har på Canal Grande… (museum title)

Wilhelm Marstrand (Danish), oil on canvas

Statens Museum for Kunst, Denmark

The Beggars, c. 1843.

The Beggars (museum title)

Honoré Daumier (French), oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art, United States

The Cardinal in the Church Doorway Blesses Beggars

Kardinalen i kirkedøren velsigner tiggere (museum title)

Wilhelm Marstrand (Danish), oil on canvas

Nivaagaard Collection, Denmark

The Beggar, 1908.

Tiggeren (museum title)

Edvard Munch (Norwegian), etching on paper

National Museum of Norway