# Fruit and Vegetable Stall in a Town Market [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SAIVE, Jan Baptist I]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 173 x 228 cm ## Commentary This is a rare painting by Jan Baptist Saive I who is better known as a history painter. In the rather doll-like figures, the high viewpoint and the unnatural contrast of planes, the same mannerist style can be seen as in his religious work. In conformity with the older tradition the observer's attention is here drawn - past the colourful display of vegetables in the foreground - to a small scene with a few figures right at the back of the picture. However, this scene has no religious content at all. This is a typical transitional work, linking the old <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/a/aertsen/marketst.html'\)" href="/html/a/aertsen/marketst.html">Aertsen</a>-<a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/b/beuckela/martha.html'\)" href="/html/b/beuckela/martha.html">Beuckelaer</a> tradition to a more modern conception. ## Related artworks - [Portrait of Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma]() - [The Fish Sale]() - [The Meat Seller]() - [The Merchant]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()