A Market Stall in Batavia

• A Market Stall in Batavia
• East Indian Market Stall in Batavia

SK-A-4070

• inscription, on individual pieces of fruit: numbers 2 to 6, 8 to 12, 14 and 16
• inscription, bottom right, on the sheet of paper: ‘Namen van Dese Vrŭchte[n] / En Malaijse en[…] geno / 1. Rambouta[n] / 2. Blimbing […] / 3. La[…]bes / 4. Pompelmo[es] / 5. Doŭrion / 6. Bor[…]Mer[…] / 7. Manga / 8. Annanassis / 9. Gacquis / 10. Mangi […] stan / 11. Ba […] / 12. C […] / 13. C […] / 14. […]’

A Chinese merchant in Batavia (present-day Jakarta on Java, Indonesia) offers a wide variety of fruit in his stall. He sells rambutan, mangosteen, durian, copra, mango, grapefruit, pineapple and banana. A woman buys betel nuts for chewing wrapped in a sirih (betel) leaf. The large Chinese community played an important role in Batavia. Chinese were primarily active as merchants and craftsmen.

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• painter: attributed to Andries Beeckman
• painter: attributed to Albert Eckhout [rejected]

c. 1640 - c. 1666

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• height 106 cm x width 175.5 cm
• weight 19 kg
• depth 5 cm

Gift of E.J. Speelman, London

gift 1962-01

Public domain

…; ? collection Joan Huydecooper (1599-1661), Amsterdam, c. 1660;{See Entry.}…; ? sale, Mattheus van den Broucke (1620-1685, Dordrecht), Dordrecht, 17 June 1717, no. 37 (`Indiaensche Fruytmarkt´), fl. 21.10;{G. Hoet, _Catalogus of naamlyst van schilderyen, met derzelver pryzen zedert een langen reeks van jaaren zoo in Holland als op andere plaatzen in het openbaar verkogt: Benevens een verzameling van lysten van verscheyden nog in wezen zynde cabinetten_, I, The Hague 1752, p. 213.}…; donated by the dealer Edward Speelman, London, to the museum, 1962

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

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