A Florentine Fruit Stall

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A Florentine Fruit Stall
Johann Zoffany (1733-1810) - A Florentine Fruit Stall - T00054 - Tate.jpg
Artist Johan Zoffany
Year1777
Type Oil on canvas, genre painting
Dimensions49.4 cm× 58 cm(19.4 in× 23 in)
Location Tate Britain, London

A Florentine Fruit Stall is a 1777 genre painting by the German-British artist Johann Zoffany. [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]

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