Fish Market
around 1621 | Peter Paul Rubens
Playing out to one side of this magnificent still life by Frans Snyders is a scene invented by Rubens and executed by his studio (perhaps by van Dyck?): Emperor Tiberius has a red mullet auctioned at the market to see who will buy it. Clad in pink, the wealthy young Octavius pays a ludicrously high price, outbidding the rich Apicius in his red toga. The episode is taken from Seneca’s Moral Epistles as retold by Rubens’s friend Ludovicus Nonnius in his work on dietetics and the eating of fish (Ichtyophagia, 1616).
Playing out to one side of this magnificent still life by Frans Snyders is a scene invented by Rubens and executed by his studio (perhaps by van Dyck?): Emperor Tiberius has a red mullet auctioned at the market to see who will buy it. Clad in pink, the wealthy young Octavius pays a ludicrously high price, outbidding the rich Apicius in his red toga. The episode is taken from Seneca’s Moral Epistles as retold by Rubens’s friend Ludovicus Nonnius in his work on dietetics and the eating of fish (Ichtyophagia, 1616).
Workshop:
Peter Paul Rubens (1577 Siegen - 1640 Antwerpen) DNB
Artist:
Frans Snyders (1579 - 1657 Antwerpen) DNB
Time:
around 1621
Object Name
Painting
Culture
Flemish
Material/technology:
Canvas
Dimensions:
253 x 375 cm
Framed: 290,5 cm x 414,5 cm x 13 cm
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie
Invs.
Gemäldegalerie, 383
Provenance
1635-1648 Coll. Buckingham; 1685 documented in Prague; 1721 transported from Prague to Vienna;