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Fish Market
Joachim Beuckelaer · 1568
- Artist
- Joachim Beuckelaer Netherlandish, Antwerp 1533–1575 Antwerp
- Date
- 1568
- Medium
- Oil on Baltic oak
- Size
- 50 5/8 × 68 7/8 in. (128.6 × 174.9 cm)
- Where to see it
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift and Bequest of George Blumenthal, by exchange, 2015 · CC0 Public Domain · The Met · see it at the museum ↗
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- The whole picture Let your eyes wander. Where do they want to rest?
- The light Find the brightest spot. What is it showing you?
- The edges Look at what is half cut off at the borders.
- One small detail Choose one tiny thing and stay with it for a while.
- The whole picture again Step back. Has it changed for you?
About Joachim Beuckelaer
Joachim Beuckelaer was a Flemish painter specialising in market and kitchen scenes with elaborate displays of food and household equipment. His development of the genre of market and kitchen scenes was influential on the development of still life art in Northern Europe as well as Italy and Spain. He also painted still lifes with no figures in the central scene. He further added the staffage or the garments in works of other local painters, such as Anthonis Mor.
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