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).