# A Market Stall in Batavia

- By: Andries Beeckman
- Date: c. 1640 - c. 1666
- Medium: canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: outer size: depth 5 cm (support incl. frame)
- Credit line: Gift of E.J. Speelman, London
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-4070--cded1111f2cbf27f9e5894272e12327e)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/6070059cd4cee22884cc4a8bf4a31ce6.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.