Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings Signed (lower right, beside fireplace): DVCK
Gallery Label In this early work of about 1630–35 Duck adopts a subject found in pictures by his older Utrecht colleagues, such as Dirck van Baburen, to a scale and setting typical of Amsterdam genre painters, such as Pieter Codde and Willem Duyster.
Notes An engraving after our painting by Jean-Augustin Patour (born 1746) is in the collection of the MMA (53.1000.2553, 9 1/2 x 12 5/8 in. [image]). The composition has been altered into a rectangle and a drawing of a man's head in profile has been added over the mantle. The engraving is dedicated to M. le Chevalier de Jaucourt, when it was in his collection: "Dedié à Monsieur le Chevalier de Jaucourt, Gravé d'après le Tableau original de Durc [sic] qui est de même grandeur tiré de son Cabinet / Par son très humble et très Obeissant serviteur J. Aug. Patour / A l'avis chez l'Auteur rue S. Jacques vis a vis le College de Louis le Grand / la Porte Cochère à côté d'un Libraire et d'un Epicier."
Provenance Louis, chevalier de Jaucourt, Paris (until d. 1779; as "Le Petit Manteur," by Durc); [D. A. Hoogendijk, Amsterdam, in 1932; as "De waarzegster," by Johan le Ducq]; R. H. Ward, London (until 1934; sale, Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, May 15–17, 1934, no. 119, as "Bohémienne disant la bonne aventure à une jeune fille assise dans un intérieur où l'on voit encore un officier," by J. Duck); [Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna, 1934; sold to Lundström]; Erna Lundström, Malmo, Sweden (1934–69; sale, Arne Bruun Rasmussen, Copenhagen, May 7–21, 1969, no. 483); [Brian Koetser, London, in 1970; sold to Feigen]; [Richard L. Feigen, New York, until 1971; sold to Levy]; Dr. and Mrs. Richard W. Levy, New Orleans (1971)
Exhibition History Amsterdam. D. A. Hoogendijk & Co.. "Zeldzame Meesters uit de 17de eeuw," June 15–July 15, 1932, no. 27.
Lund, Sweden. Skånska Kostmuseum. "Gamla Holländare I Skånska Hem," November 15–December 6, 1953, no. 18.
London. Brian Koetser Gallery. "Exhibition of Paintings by Old Masters," October 14–December 1970, no. 2.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 18, 2007–January 6, 2008, no catalogue.
References Sylvie Béguin. "Pieter Codde et Jacob Duck." Oud-Holland 67 (1952), pp. 114–115 n. 18.Gamla Holländare I Skånska Hem . Exh. cat., Skånska Konstmuseum. Lund, 1953, p. 18, no. 18.Letter to Mr. and Mrs. Levy . June 6, 1971.Apollo 99 (May 1974), pp. 344, 346, 349 n. 11, fig. 8.A Guide to Dutch Art in America . Grand Rapids, Mich., 1986, p. 187, fig. 265.Metropolitan Museum Journal 23 (1988), pp. 201, 207 n. 7, figs. 2–3 (overall and detail).Jacob Duck and the Gentrification of Dutch Genre Painting . Doornspijk, The Netherlands, 1998, pp. 128–29, 147, no. 27, fig. 118, colorpl. VII.Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art . New York, 2007, vol. 1, pp. x, 182–84, no. 41, colorpl. 41.
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