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 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]