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A Market Stall in Batavia
Also titled Een marktstal in Batavia
c. 1640 - c. 1666
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- outer size: depth 5 cm (support incl. frame)
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of E.J. Speelman, London
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
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.
