Market Woman with a Basket of Eggs, ca. 1608 – 1609

Title

Market Woman with a Basket of Eggs

Draughtsman

• Roelant Savery

Recto

Woodcutter Seen from the Rear

Part Number / Total

4 / 4

Period Produced

• 17th century
• 16th century

School

• Renaissance
• Baroque

Object Type

• drawing

Material

• ink?
• Indian ink?
• chalk
• Vergé paper
• handmade paper

Technique

• pen drawing
• chalk drawing

Geographic Reference

• Netherlandish

Production Reason

• figure study

Label at the Time of Manufacture

Bezeichnet (mit der Feder in Braun): stroiie / moffe / swatte lerssen / witte sluuer / swart lif / vil swartte Rock / vil swartte doeck / vil grauue sack / nart het leuen

Captions Added Later

Unten links Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356)

Watermark

• Reichsadler [Fragment]

Work Catalogues

• Spicer-Durham 1979.595.C.165.F.163
• Münz 1961.216.67
• Tolnay 1952.93.A.30

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Genre

• genre

Primary

• 46BB21 merchant, salesman - BB - women engaged in trade and commerce

Secondary

• 41C642 eggs, egg-dishes
• 41A777 container of textile material: bag, sack
• 41A7751 container made of plant material other than wood: basket
• 41D267 purse, money-bag
• 31D15(+2) adult woman (+ back view)

Historic Attribution

• Pieter Bruegel the Elder draughtsman