Fishmongers
Technical Details
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Title
Fishmongers -
Author
Vincenzo Campi -
Year
1578 - 81 -
Dimensions
cm 144.5 x 217 -
Inventory
403 -
Room
XV
This painting, probably an allegory of Water, is remarkable for the exaggerated mimicry that was such a feature of the conventional depiction of the poorer classes. Against the backdrop of a hilly landscape by a river in which people are fishing, a family of fishmongers goes about its daily business; a girl places another catch on the stall while a man and a woman eat at a small table, ignoring the yelping of a boy who has been pinched by a prawn.
