The fishmonger's bench and the greengrocer

This work, in which the faces are remarkably rendered, shows a small group of people in a typical market scene: a fishmonger is weighing a fish for a customer wearing a black shawl while a market gardener with a big hat looks on with a smile.
The artist, Giacomo Francesco Cipper, who specialised in still life and genre scenes, was born in Austria on 15 July 1664, moving to Milan in 1696 where he lived and worked until his death. Cipper is considered to be one of the main upholders of the naturalist tradition, in the Neapolitan style of Caravaggio.