| Covent Garden Market | |
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| Artist | Balthazar Nebot |
| Year | 1737 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, landscape painting |
| Dimensions | 64.8 cm× 122.8 cm(25.5 in× 48.3 in) |
| Location | Tate Britain, London |
Covent Garden Market is a 1737 landscape painting by the artist Balthazar Nebot. [1] It depicts a view of Covent Garden Market in Central London] facing westwards St Paul's Church designed by Inigo Jones a century earlier. [2] It depicts the busting fruit and vegetable stalls market. Comparatively little is known about the artist, although this has become one of the better-known images of early Georgian era [3]
Today the painting is in the collection of the Tate Britain in Pimlico, having been acquired in 1895 by the National Gallery and later transferred to the Tate. [4]
