The Clubfoot is a 1642 oil on canvas painting by Jusepe de Ribera. It is housed in the Musée du Louvre in Paris, and was painted in Naples

Naples

Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...

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Commissioned by a Flemish dealer, the painting features a Neapolitan beggar boy with a deformed foot. Behind him is a vast and luminous landscape, against which the boy stands with a gap-toothed grin, wearing earth-toned clothes and holding his crutch slung over his left shoulder. Written in Latin on the paper in the boy's hand is the sentence "DA MIHI ELIMO SINAM PROPTER AMOREM DEI" ("Give me alms, for the love of God").

External links

• The Clubfoot, Louvre
• Lubbock, Tom. de Ribera, Jusepe: The Boy with the Club Foot (1642), The Independent, 14 March 2008.