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An Old Woman Selling Fish

Gabriel Metsu (1629–1667)

The Wallace Collection

An Old Woman Selling Fish

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Scenes of buying and selling were a favoured subject for artists and collectors in seventeenth-century Dutch art. Not only did they afford the artist an opportunity to display his ability to evoke material textures in paint, in much the same way as still-life painting, but they also indirectly re-affirmed the key role of commerce in society: a view very much in keeping with the mercantile values of the northern Netherlands at this date.

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Title

An Old Woman Selling Fish

Date

1657–1662

Medium

oil on oak panel

Measurements

H 47.1 x W 37.7 cm

Accession number

P234

Acquisition method

acquired by Francis Charles Seymour-Conway, 3rd Marquess of Hertford, 1807; bequeathed to the nation by Lady Wallace, 1897

Work type

Painting

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Gabriel Metsu

1629–1667

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