AKEN, Joseph van
(b. ca. 1699, Antwerpen, d. 1749, London)

A Vegetable Seller and his Son

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Oil on canvas, 76 x 64 cm
Private collection

This painting is one of a pair. In the present scene, a vegetable seller and his son offer wares to a lady and a cleric by a statue of Bacchus. The landscape in which the two paintings are set unites them as a pair.