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DescriptionProperty from a European Private Collection
Jacob DuckUtrecht (?) circa 1600 - 1667Interior with elegantly-dressed figures and a fortune teller with her retinue
oil on oak panelunframed: 49 x 72.8 cm.; 19¼ x 28⅝ in.framed: 65.2 x 88.4 cm.; 25⅝ x 34¾ in.Condition reportThe panel is uncradled, the paint surface is relatively clean and the varnish is very slightly discoloured. Small discoloured retouchings are visible through parts of the background, particularly in the centre of the image, and in the floor, lower left. Inspection under ultraviolet light confirms these and further reveals small strengthenings in the folds of the figures' clothes, lower right, and some small retouchings in the back of the chair, lower left. The painting is in overall good condition.
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By whom sold, London, Sotheby's, 24 June 1964, lot 118;
With J. Rosenthal, Amsterdam, 1966;
C.W. van Blijenburgh, Hilversum, 1980;
With John H. Schlichte Bergen, Amsterdam, 1987 (when reproduced in Simiolus, vol. 17, p. 75);
With Gebr. Douwes, Amsterdam and London, 1988 (when exhibited at TEFAF, and advertised in Apollo, March 1988);
Probably from whom acquired.LiteratureM.L.Wurfbain (ed.), Een verzameling schilderijen uit de 17de, 18de en 19de eeuw, exh. cat., Leiden 1980, p. 12, no. 16, reproduced p. 36;
N. Salomon, Jacob Duck and the gentrification of Dutch genre painting, Ghent 1998, pp. 130 and 148, no. 28, reproduced fig. 122;
J. Rosen, Jacob Duck c. 1600–1667. Catalogue Raisonné, Amsterdam 2017, pp. 164–65, no. 58, reproduced in colour (as datable to circa 1637–42).ExhibitedLeiden, Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal, Een verzameling schilderijen uit de 17de, 18de en 19de eeuw, 25 April – 8 June 1980, no. 16.Catalogue noteThe figure of the child in the lower right corner, who offers a gold coin to the viewer, is also found in Duck's painting of Gypsies in a stable, probably painted slightly later, in the 1640s.1 The principal lady, sitting with one arm hanging at her side, is repeated in a number of paintings, particularly those of the early to mid-1630s that depict brothel scenes.
1 See Rosen 2017, p. 165, no. 59, reproduced.