Dwarves gorging on Melons, and a Shipwreck

Faustino Bocchi (1659-1741). Oil painting on canvas, Dwarves gorging on Melons and a Shipwreck by Faustino Bocchi (1659-1741), circa 1700. In a landscape setting on the left, but with a shipwreck on the right, Bocchi's characteristic Callot-influenced dwarves attack two melons, which dwarf them. A slice has already been cut out of the one bottom left, into which a half-dressed dwarf prepares to jump. The other melon, still intact, is scaled by one group of dwarves on a ladder, whilst, from the other side, grasshoppers help another couple of dwarves to pierce the melon with a knife from the air. In front, four or five other dwarves bear away a slice from the first melon. Above, a dwarf in a cape hangs from a tree. Scotney Castle, Kent (Accredited Museum)