Vegetable Market in Ruins
Joannes Philippus Spalthoven (wohl vor 1680 - nach 1722)
Lot-No. 35
Oil/canvas, 66 x 74,5 cm, lo. le. sign. and dat. J. P. Spalthoff 1712, relined. - The market-women are selling there vegetables under sculpted figures of selfishness and charity. The beggar at the margin proofs the contrast not to be a merely antique or theoretical one. - Provenance: Christie's London, 2.8.1968, lot no. 194; Dorotheum Wien, 18.6.1985, lot no. 703; Wiener Kunstauktionen, 2.12.1993, lot no. 19; Dorotheum Wien, 9.6.1999, lot no. 224; private collection Sweden. - Flemish landscape, still life and history painter. Very little is known about the artist's life; in 1700 he became member of the Antwerp St. Luke's guild. He travelled to Rome three times. Lit.: Thieme-Becker.
Joannes Philippus Spalthoven: Vegetable Market in Ruins
Joannes Philippus Spalthoven (wohl vor 1680 - nach 1722)
Vegetable Market in Ruins
Lot-No. 35
Oil/canvas, 66 x 74,5 cm, lo. le. sign. and dat. J. P. Spalthoff 1712, relined. - The market-women are selling there vegetables under sculpted figures of selfishness and charity. The beggar at the margin proofs the contrast not to be a merely antique or theoretical one. - Provenance: Christie's London, 2.8.1968, lot no. 194; Dorotheum Wien, 18.6.1985, lot no. 703; Wiener Kunstauktionen, 2.12.1993, lot no. 19; Dorotheum Wien, 9.6.1999, lot no. 224; private collection Sweden. - Flemish landscape, still life and history painter. Very little is known about the artist's life; in 1700 he became member of the Antwerp St. Luke's guild. He travelled to Rome three times. Lit.: Thieme-Becker.