Fish Market
around 1621, Workshop: Peter Paul Rubens
Fish Market
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 Apsius 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).
Object data
Object Name
Painting
Culture
Flemish
Dated
around 1621
Workshop
Peter Paul Rubens (1577 Siegen - 1640 Antwerpen) - GND
Artist
Frans Snyders (1579 - 1657 Antwerpen) - GND
Anthonis van Dyck (Figuren) (1599 Antwerpen - 1641 London) - GND
Material
Canvas
Dimensions
253 x 375 cm
Framed: 290,5 cm x 414,5 cm x 13 cm
Image rights
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Gemäldegalerie
Inv. No.
Gemäldegalerie, 383
Provenance
1635-1648 Coll. Buckingham; 1685 documented in Prague; 1721 transported from Prague to Vienna;
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