Pieter Aertsen

mannerism

Pieter Aertsen Paintings 1508 - 1575 Painter, Holland, Mannerism

Market Woman with Vegetable Stall, 1567

Oil on canvas

Staatliche Museen, Berlin

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OIL PAINTING: Market Woman with Vegetable Stall, 1567
The painting - Market Woman with Vegetable Stall, demonstrates a wide range of agricultural products, made possible by the improvements in production methods. Offering her fruits and vegetables, the woman is almost an appendage to her produce. Despite all exaggeration, the picture quite adequately shows the new economic prosperity of the time. At the same time, however, it still contains a background scene in genre style of embracing lovers in a stable, thus relating the painting to late medieval peasant satires. Peasants were regarded as lustful, sensuous and carnal by the middle classes.