Traditional Market Scene in 's Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc), North Brabant, c1890

Traditional Market Day Costumes and Cheese Porters of West Friesland, c.1930 This vibrant original lithograph, dating to around 1930, captures a dynamic and colorful scene of market life in West Friesland, a historic region in the Netherlands. The image depicts five figures dressed in traditional regional costumes: two cheese-porters in their iconic white summer suits and red straw hats, an older woman in black mourning dress, and a younger woman and girl in richly colored attire. This visual documentation reflects the customs as they were still worn on market days in the early 20th century, especially in towns such as Hoorn, once famed for its cheese trade. The men's costumes follow guild tradition, with color-coded hats—red in this case—signifying their porter group. Their white linen suits, black shoes, and strong physiques suggest the physical nature of their trade, carrying large wooden barrows stacked high with yellow cheeses. Their neutral clothing contrasts beautifully with the ornate regional dress of the women beside them. The older woman wears the *Hollandsche hul*, or Dutch hood, evolved from the 18th-century *schelpboedje* or shell hat. Her black ensemble is of 1840s bourgeois style, featuring a full-sleeved black cashmere gown with flowered silk *merino* apron. The double-stranded gold *kruisje ketting* necklace and cross pendant signal her Roman Catholic faith. The younger woman represents the exquisite full West Frisian costume worn only on Sundays or ceremonial occasions. Her headdress is layered: a fine linen under-cap, handmade lace inner cap, wide gold *oorijzer*, and elaborate starched black lace crown with goffered wings, requiring a wooden roller to stiffen. Her magenta dress...

Axel Family in Traditional Costume, Zeeland-Flanders, 1930s Lithograph This delightful 1930s lithograph captures a joyful family scene from Axel, a town in Zeeland-Flanders, showcas...

Traditional Dutch Costume Print - Staphorst and Rouveen, circa 1930s This richly colored vintage lithograph presents a striking portrayal of three Dutch women dressed in full Sunday...

Charming Vintage Print – Women and Children of Volendam in Traditional Dress This original 1932 chromolithograph from The National Costumes of Holland by Gratiane de Gardilanne and ...

A Flower Market in Dordrecht (Netherlands, Dutch Holland) depicts a busy market day along the river in stunning detail with brightly colored flowers and busy towns people on the cobb...

Oil painting on canvas painted by Jan van Rijsewijk (Dutch, 1928-1987). The painting is a Dutch village street and signed by Rijsewijk lower right. Nicely framed in gold painted woo...

'Market Square in Wijk bij Duurstede' - Vintage lithographic Architectural print on paper with white hand painted highlights - titled (in Dutch) in the lower margin - signed in the p...

Antique Impressionist Flower and Farmer's Market, Charlottenburg School, 1927, an oil on canvas urban landscape painting of town square with flower venders, signed illegibly A___ V____ (looks akin to A__ssy V_erge) and dated 1927 lower left. An autumnal scene with classic "viktualienmarkt" that looks so much like the Munich Altstadt but is almost surely the park alongside the Prussian Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin. This is a very charming and beautiful painting. The Charlottenburg area was the seat of the Berlin Secessionist school of German progressive artists that espoused modern art, especially impressionism and expressionism. Max Liebermann in particular, a painter and printmaker, was one of the leading proponents of Impressionism in Germany and continental Europe, and a leading light of the Berlin Secessionism. The Charlottenburg art community became a sort of German "Left Bank" and was at the avant garde of of the visual arts and literature, including the likes of Alfred Döblin, Otto Dix, Gottfried Benn, Else Lasker-Schüler, Bertolt Brecht...