# Fruit and Vegetable Seller [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CAMPI, Vincenzo]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 141 x 216 cm ## Commentary In this large painting, Vincenzo Campi renders one of his most recognizable and classic subjects: a young fruit and vegetable seller surrounded by her wares. It is a variation on the artist's celebrated Fruit Seller \(Fruttivendola\) in the Pinacoteca di Brera. The present composition is filled with a new array of produce and is animated with differing characters, most notably the young man at left with an amusingly contorted face and a finger in his ear. Yet, just like the version in Brera, Campi has anchored this scene with a beautiful female, setting her slightly off centre within a foreground teeming with baskets of goods and placing her before a landscape within which two figures are gathering fruit from the branches of a tree that rises along edge of the painting. Signed and dated 1583, this is a mature work by Vincenzo Campi that exemplifies the types of naturalistic, and sometimes humorous, genre scenes he turned to after the 1570s. ## Related artworks - [Chicken Vendors]() - [Christ Being Nailed to the Cross]() - [Christ in the House of Mary and Martha]() - [Fishmongers]() - [Fruit Seller \(detail\)]() - [Fruit Seller]() - [Kitchen]() - [St Matthew and the Angel \(detail\)]() - [St Matthew and the Angel]() - [Still-Life]() - [Study for the "Ricotta Eaters"]() - [Study of a Woman]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()