A Florentine Fruit Stall
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| Artist | Johan Zoffany |
| Year | 1777 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, genre painting |
| Dimensions | 49.4 cm × 58 cm (19.4 in × 23 in) |
| Location | Tate Britain, London |
A Florentine Fruit Stall is an oil on canvas genre painting by the German-British artist Johann Zoffany, from 1777.[1] It portrays fruit vendors at a stall in Florence in Tuscany. The main figures are the stallholder, her daughter, a country girl with a basket, a beggar and a capuchin friar. It may have included additional figure on the right which were later cut off.[2]
It was painted while he was in the city to fulfill a commission from Queen Charlotte The Tribuna of the Uffizi. Painted purely for his own interest, the fruit sellers remained in his studio until his death in 1810.[3] Today the painting is in the collection of the Tate Britain in London, having been acquired in 1955.[4]
References
Bibliography
- Treadwell, Penelope. Johan Zoffany: Artist and Adventurer. Paul Holberton, 2009.
- Webster, Mary. Johan Zoffany, 1733-1810. National Portrait Gallery, 1976.