Two scenes showing a fish market in front of a town - Mathijs Schoevaerdts

Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 38 x 67 cm

Schoevaerdt's specialty was combination landscapes, in which airy landscapes are often combined with a body of water and imaginative capriccio-like architecture, whereby the figure staffage was often provided by fellow painters such as Pieter Bout (1658-1719). One painting in particular, sold at Sotheby's, Amsterdam on November 7, 2000, lot 83, shows clear parallels to the architecture of the present painting.
We can see a bay on the shore of which fishing boats have landed, whose fishermen are about to sell their wares to residents of a city who have gathered in front of the imaginative architecture.