Trader in Game (Vendor of Fowl) by Pieter Aertsen was created in 1561. The painting is in Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. The original size of the work is 137 x 95 cm and is made of oil on panel.
The Artist: Dutch mannerist painter Pieter Aertsen was born in Amsterdam (1509). He is credited with the invention of the monumental genre scene, which combines still life and genre painting and often also includes a biblical scene in the background. He was active in his native city Amsterdam but also worked for a long period in Antwerp, then the centre of artistic life in the Netherlands.
After he returned in 1556, various Amsterdam churches, his principal patrons, commissioned Aertsen to make large altarpieces. Soon, however, he abandoned religious art and started to paint scenes from peasant life. He was known above all for his paintings of market scenes and kitchen tableaux, which contained an abundance of fruit, fish, poultry, cheese, bread and much besides. His younger cousin and pupil Joachim Bueckelaer also painted in the same genre and developed it further. Aertsen’s work included the painting of large altarpieces as well as smaller devotional works… Read more.
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