# The Poulterer's Shop [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MIERIS, Willem van]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Oil on panel, 40 x 33 cm ## Commentary This highly refined and finished scene of a poulterer's shop, viewed through a draped, open window, forms part of a rich tradition of meticulously executed works characteristic of the Leiden fijnschilders. Both in style and subject matter it is entirely consistent with the artist's mature output in which he assimilates the technique of his father, Frans van Mieris, as well as a compositional format made popular by Gerrit Dou a generation earlier The bas-relief featured at the base of the composition, which Van Mieris repeats in a number of other works, is closely related to a <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/d/duquesno/francois/bacchana.html'\)" href="/html/d/duquesno/francois/bacchana.html"> design by François Duquesnoy</a> that was earlier borrowed by Gerrit Dou for <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/d/dou/2/violonpl.html'\)" href="/html/d/dou/2/violonpl.html">similar compositions.</a> ## Related artworks - [A Seated Man]() - [An Old Man Reading]() - [Diana Resting in a Landscape]() - [Expulsion of Hagar]() - [Interior with a Mother Attending her Children]() - [Man with Pipe]() - [Militiaman with Empty Glass]() - [Penitent Mary Magdalene]() - [The Escaped Bird]() - [The Greengrocer]() - [The Lute Player]() - [The Poulterer's Shop \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()