Object number1923.1
Francois de Granvelle, Comte de Cantecroy and Mademoiselle Gaille
DateLate 1500s
Artist
Currently Unidentified
formerly attributed to
Joachim Bueckelaer
(Flemish, 1533-1573)
CultureFlemish
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 46 7/16 x 39 3/8 in. (118 x 100 cm)
Framed: 53 9/16 x 46 7/16 x 3 1/8 in. (136 x 118 x 8 cm)
Framed: 53 9/16 x 46 7/16 x 3 1/8 in. (136 x 118 x 8 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, Committee on Art and Art Collections Fund
On View
On viewPeriod16th c
Classification(s)
Terms
Purchased, by President MacCracken, Cracow, Poland, November 23, 1923
Label TextThis market scene, perhaps after a lost prototype by Joachim Beuckelaer, depicts an elegant young woman sitting with a well-dressed and bejeweled man whose hand rests on her hip. She holds a basket of hazelnuts, a food associated with aphrodisiac properties. This sensual display appears to be garnering the admonishment of the older man at right as he stares at the pair with one finger raised. More than a dozen examples of this composition and its variants are known. While these works are sometimes called The Lovely Greengrocer, Vassar’s painting is listed with the title found on a 1607 inventory describing the version belonging to Granvelle Palace in Besançon, France.
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Pierre Bonnard
