A young woman buying fruit from an old woman at a market, a man smoking a pipe nearby

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Jan Victors (Amsterdam 1619-1676 East India)
A young woman buying fruit from an old woman at a market, a man smoking a pipe nearby
oil on canvas
116.5 x 147 cm.

Provenance

Private collection, England, 1965.
with J.O. Slatter, London, 1964.
with A. Rosenthal, London.
with R. Cook, London.

Literature

B. Haak, The Golden Age. Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, New York, 1984, p. 122, illustrated.
D. Miller, Jan Victors, 1619-1676, Delaware, 1985, p. 316, no. A 104, illustrated.
W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, Landau, 1989, IV, p. 2616, no. 1810, p. 2711, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

According to Professor Werner Sumowski, the present picture is a late work by the artist, comparable in style with Abraham parting from Lot in the Metropolitan Museum, New York and Diogenes looking for an honest man in the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg. With the latter it also shares the abundant display of fruits and vegetables, a recurring motive in Victor's oeuvre (see W. Sumowski, op.cit., p. 2614).

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