Attributed to ANTONIO CARNEO (Concordia Sagittaria, 1637 - Portogruaro, 1692). "The Water Carrier. Oil on canvas. Re-coloured. With label of the Junta Delegada de Incautación with inventory number 14924 provenance; C.N.T, and collection number 1625. Stamp stamped on the canvas "Eduardo Groizaro". Provenance: Old Spanish noble collection. Presents a 19th century frame. Measurements: 96 x 71 cm; 108,5 x 87 cm (frame). In this work the author presents a portrait of costumbrista style, which can be deduced from the clothes that the protagonist wears. The sitter is portrayed with his bust slightly turned three-quarters of the way round. The sitter holds a jug in his hands as the only element in the scene. This work has similarities with Antonio Carneo`s "Il giramundo", which is in the collection of the Museo Civeri, Udine. It is true that the two works are particularly close in their subject matter. This composition and the subject treated by the author, which was common in the scenes of the reality of the Golden Age and the picaresque literature of the time, bring the work closer to the naturalistic trend. It is a genre in which popular types and attitudes, behaviour, values and habits common to a specific group of the population, region or class are described by means of a satirical, nostalgic or narrative description of the atmosphere, customs, dress, festivals and entertainments, traditions, trades and types representative of a society. The idea of costumbrismo arose from an attempt to understand reality, or more precisely, reality understood in a particular way, from a specific point of view. Italian Baroque painter active in Friuli and Veneto. Although he may have initially trained with his own father, Giacomo Carniello, a painter of some renown, Carneo perfected his skills through the assiduous study of the Venetian masters of the Cinquecento. In Udine, where he lived for over twenty years, from 1667 he enjoyed the protection of the Counts Leonardo and Giovanni Battista Caiselli, who provided him with food and lodging in exchange for paintings. In 1690 he painted for them or through their mediation the altarpiece for the church of San Zeno in Fossalta di Portogruaro and in the same year he signed the Education of the Virgin and Saints in the church of San Cristoforo in Udine. He died in December 1692 in Portogruaro, busy painting for the parish church of Fossalta, an admirer of Flemish painting, tenebrism and the naturalism of Bernardo Strozzi and Luca Giordano, his painting was appreciated for the natural colouring and verism of his models. Well-equipped for portraits, as evidenced by the first of his known works, the Holy Family Adored by the Lieutenant and the Deputies in the Museo Civico in Udine, dated 1667, he sometimes exaggerated the rustic and picaresque character of his models and the drama of the situations.