The Street Seller, from the Dolls' House of Petronella Oortman

The Street Seller, from the Dolls' House of Petronella Oortman


Details

Year
1700
Medium
oil on copper
Type
painting
Dimensions
9.7 × 12.7 cm

The story

In a village street, a seller has brought her goods to a cottage door. She bends forward in a broad hat and a red skirt, face to face with a man who stoops over her basket, while a woman leans out over the lower half of a split door and a boy waits by the step. A barrel stands on the ground, a dog and a few chickens wander about, and at the left rises the long pole of a well sweep, used to lift a bucket from a well. The whole scene fits on a copper oval less than 13 centimetres wide, set in a gilt bronze frame with a ring for hanging.

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