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

Vegetable and Fruit Market

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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 and fruit market by a statue of Venus, with a town by a river beyond. The landscape in which the two paintings are set unites them as a pair.