# A Vegetable Seller and his Son

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## Artwork

- Artist: [AKEN, Joseph van](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/aken-joseph-van-r99d709a7c11226>)
- Date: 1701-1750
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 76 x 64 cm

## Commentary

This painting is one of a pair. In the present scene, a vegetable seller and his son offer wares to a lady and a cleric by a statue of Bacchus. The landscape in which the two paintings are set unites them as a pair.

## Related artworks

- [A Sporting Conversation Piece](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/aken-joseph-van-r99d709a7c11226/a-sporting-conversation-piece-r4ccb1dd9dfd901>)
- [The Van Aken Brothers](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/aken-joseph-van-r99d709a7c11226/the-van-aken-brothers-r9d884c244f580a>)
- [Vegetable and Fruit Market](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/aken-joseph-van-r99d709a7c11226/vegetable-and-fruit-market-r3cd052913a536d>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)