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The Fortune Teller

Artist Nicolaas Jansz. Verkolje (Dutch, 1673 - 1746)
Place of OriginNetherlands
Datelate 17th-mid 18th Century
DimensionsH: 16 5/8 in. (42.2 cm); W: 13 1/4 in. (33.6 cm)
MediumOil on wood panel.
ClassificationPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1955.39
Not on View
Label TextWorking in the late 1600s and the early decades of the 1700s, Nicolaes Verkolje often modeled his work on the scenes of everyday life by Dutch painters of some 50 years earlier. The intimate size, smooth finish, and wood panel support (rather than canvas) all were influenced by these earlier masters. The subject, too, was popular in the early to mid 1600s. See The Fortune Teller with Soldiers (1620) by Valentin de Boulogne in the Great Gallery (Gallery 36) for another take on the gypsy fortune teller theme.Published ReferencesWittmann, Otto, Jr., "The Life of the People," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 1, no. 3, Fall 1957, p. 6, repr. p. 5.

Wittmann, Otto, "The Golden Age in the Netherlands," Apollo, vol. 86, no. 70, Dec. 1967, p. 468, repr. fig. 26, p. 477.

Mandle, E. Roger, Dutch Masterpieces of the Eighteenth Century: Painting and Drawings 1700-1800,(exh. cat.) Minneapolis, Toledo, Philadelphia, 1971-1972, p. 106.

Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, European Paintings, Toledo, 1976, p. 163, pl. 145.

Knolle, Paul, Nicolaas Verkolje, 1673-1746: de Fluwelen Hand, Zwolle, Waanders, 2011, p. 51, fig. 13 (col.) p. 54 (not in exhibition).

Fortune-Teller with Soldiers
Valentin de Boulogne
about 1620
Harbor
Carel Nicolaas Storm van ’s Gravesande
mid 19th-early 20th century
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Carel Nicolaas Storm van ’s Gravesande
mid 19th-early 20th Century
Harbor of Flushing (?), Holland
Carel Nicolaas Storm van ’s Gravesande
mid 19th-early 20th Century
Dordrecht, No.15
Carel Nicolaas Storm van ’s Gravesande
mid 19th-early 20th Century
Church at Katwyk
Carel Nicolaas Storm van ’s Gravesande
19th century
Entrée de Fôret
Carel Nicolaas Storm van ’s Gravesande
1873
The Adoration of the Child
Piero di Cosimo
about 1495-1500
Paul Guillaume
Amedeo Modigliani
1915
Young Man with a Plumed Hat
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
1631

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