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After the painting by Frans Snyders (1579-1657) and Jan Boeckhorst ['Long John'] (1605-1668), (between 1618 and 1621, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, [as 'Greengrocery Stall' with additional attribution of landscape to Jan Wildens (1586-1653)], entered the Hermitage in 1779; acquired from the R. Walpole collection, Houghton Hall, England, ??-598). A scene at a vegetable market where baskets full of cabbages, onions and squashes fill the left side of the composition. A horse reaches its head from outside the picture plane to smell the cabbages. A female customer wearing a wide-brimmed hat on the right carries a basket laden with artichokes and asparagus and is engaged in buying carrots from the female stallholder. The customer is unaware that a small boy crouching at the centre is emptying her purse of money as she haggles.
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Cambridge
Title
A Herb Market
Date
1779
Accession number
P.14998-R
Acquisition method
Bequeathed by the Rev. R. E. Kerrich, 1872 (received 1873)
Work type
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Trumpington Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 1RB England
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