The Lunch is a very early painting by Spanish artist Diego Velázquez

Diego Velázquez

Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez was a Spanish painter who was the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV. He was an individualistic artist of the contemporary Baroque period, important as a portrait artist...

, finished c. 1617. It is housed in the Hermitage Museum

Hermitage Museum

The State Hermitage is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. One of the largest and oldest museums of the world, it was founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great and has been opened to the public since 1852. Its collections, of which only a small part is on permanent display,...

 of St. Petersburg.

The paintings portrays a table covered by a creased cloth, on which two pomegranate

Pomegranate

The pomegranate , Punica granatum, is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub or small tree growing between five and eight meters tall.Native to the area of modern day Iran, the pomegranate has been cultivated in the Caucasus since ancient times. From there it spread to Asian areas such as the Caucasus as...

s and a piece of bread lies. People attending the lunch include an aged man on the left and a young on the right, while, in the background, an apparently care-free boy pours wine into a jug.

In the background appears a white neck-band, a leather bag and, on the right, a sword.

The Lunch and The Farmers' Lunch

The Farmers' Lunch

The Farmers' Lunch is one of the first paintings by the Spanish artist Diego Velázquez. Painted in 1618, it combines a still life of food and drink with a depiction of three comic farmers, whose anatomy the artist studies closely...

are almost identical.