1620
Oil on copper, 40 x 55 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris
This picture, the earliest dated painting by Poelenburgh, shows the cattle market held on the Roman Forum. Between the ruins of ancient buildings are traders with their cattle and a woman doing the washing at a public fountain from which cattle also drink. The Castel Sant'Angelo is recognisable in the background (which is in fact not visible from the Roman Forum).
