Jacob Duck

Interior with elegantly-dressed figures and a fortune teller with her retinue

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July 7, 01:23 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a European Private Collection

Jacob Duck

Utrecht (?) circa 1600 - 1667

Interior with elegantly-dressed figures and a fortune teller with her retinue

oil on oak panel

unframed: 49 x 72.8 cm.; 19¼ x 28⅝ in.

framed: 65.2 x 88.4 cm.; 25⅝ x 34¾ in.

F. Dashwood;
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.

M.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).

The 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.