Market Scene
about 1560/65 | Pieter Aertsen
In addition to a large number of paintings on religious themes, Aertsen specialised in a new type of picture that he himself had developed, the market painting. With his monumental figures, turned powerfully with their gaze directed at the viewer, Aertsen draws on Italian inspiration. The aggressive Netherlandish realism and “humble” subject matter (according to the values of the time) are ennobled here by a “higher” style borrowed from the Italian Renaissance.
In addition to a large number of paintings on religious themes, Aertsen specialised in a new type of picture that he himself had developed, the market painting. With his monumental figures, turned powerfully with their gaze directed at the viewer, Aertsen draws on Italian inspiration. The aggressive Netherlandish realism and “humble” subject matter (according to the values of the time) are ennobled here by a “higher” style borrowed from the Italian Renaissance.
Artist:
Pieter Aertsen (1508/09 - 1575 Amsterdam) DNB
Time:
about 1560/65
Object Name
Painting
Culture
Netherlandish
Material/technology:
oak wood
Dimensions:
91 cm × 112 cm
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie
Invs.
Gemäldegalerie, 960
Provenance
1685 Prague Castle; 1723 transferred from Prague to Vienna; 1733 Imperial Coll. Vienna