File:A Grocer's Shop by Willem van Mieris Mauritshuis 109.jpg

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Willem van Mieris: A Grocer's Shop  wikidata:Q17275795 reasonator:Q17275795
Artist
Willem van Mieris  (1662–1747)  wikidata:Q1348950
 
Willem van Mieris
Description Dutch painter, drawer, printmaker and ornamental painter
Date of birth/death 3 June 1662 Edit this at Wikidata 26 January 1747 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Leiden Leiden
Work period from 1684 until 1747
date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P580,+1684-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1747-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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artist QS:P170,Q1348950
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Title
A Grocer's Shop Edit this at Wikidata
label QS:Lnl,"Kruidenierswinkel"
label QS:Len,"A Grocer's Shop"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre genre art Edit this at Wikidata
Description
View into a grocery shop through a wide arched window. To the right, behind the counter, a woman is weighing rock candy. On the left a boy is holding a cooky, perhaps a bitterkoekje. On the background shelves with grocery goods, some of which is labled. On the foreground a barrel with dried fruit and sacks with nuts with measuring cups. Pendant of A Poultry Shop (Paris, Musée du Louvre, inv. 1552).
Date 1717
date QS:P571,+1717-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on panelmedium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q106857709,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 49.5 cm (19.4 in); width: 41 cm (16.1 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,49.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,41U174728
institution QS:P195,Q221092
Accession number
109
Place of creation Leiden
Object history by 1718
date QS:P,+1718-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1718-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Willem van Mieris (1662-1747), Leiden

1718: purchased by Johan Hendrik van Wassenaer Obdam (1683-1745), The Hague, from Willem van Mieris, Leiden

19 August 1750: sale of the collection of Monsieur le Comte de Wassenaer d'Obdam at Peter de Hondt, The Hague, for ƒ322 (as ‘Een Wyf dat Carstanjes weegt, met een Jongen, en veel bywerk’)

by 1757
date QS:P,+1757-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1757-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: William V, Prince of Orange (1748-1806), Het Loo Palace, Apeldoorn

1763: transferred to Stadhouderlijk Hof, The Hague (as ‘a. Een kruidenierswinkel door W. Mieris ... 1 [voet] 8 [duim] [×] 1 [voet] 4½ [duim]’)

1774: transferred to Schilderijengallerij, Buitenhof, The Hague

1795: confiscated by the French

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: transferred to Paris
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: transferred to the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague
Inscriptions

Signature and date top left:

W. van Mieris. Fe. 1717

center right:

AMANDE[L]

center right:

FOELY

center right:

NOTE. MUS.
References

Mauritshuis online catalogue, as A Grocer's Shop.

RKDimages, Art-work number 25436, as Grocery shop
Source/Photographer www.mauritshuis.nl : Home : Info : Pic

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