The Herring Seller

• The Herring-Seller
• The Herring Seller

SK-A-2328

signature: ‘GMetsu’

With a critical eye, the woman in this painting inspects the herring being offered to her by a herring merchant. Unlike what is common today in the Netherlands, fish was primarily consumed in the morning and afternoon during the 17th century. Additionally, there was an abundant supply of fresh fish on Catholic fasting days such as Fridays, when meat was not eaten.

Bikker, Jonathan, 'The hidden collection of the spectacularly bankrupt banker Leendert Pieter de Neufville', Simiolus 36 (2012), nr. 3/4, p. 193, afb. 13.

painter: Gabriël Metsu (mentioned on object)

c. 1661 - c. 1662

olieverf op paneel

height 37 cm x width 33 cm

Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

purchase 1908

Public domain

Bikker, Jonathan, 'The hidden collection of the spectacularly bankrupt banker Leendert Pieter de Neufville', Simiolus 36 (2012), nr. 3/4, p. 193, afb. 13.

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