Jacob Duck

With Pierre-Joseph De Marneffe, Brussels;

His sale, Brussels, Mataigne, 24 May 1830, lot 163 (as Johan le Ducq);

With The Ver Meer Gallery, London, by 1939;

By whom sold anonymously, Lucerne, Galerie Fischer, 9 November 1940, lot 1288 (as Willem Cornelisz Duyster, with incorrect dimensions);

Where probably acquired by Galerie Moos, Geneva;

Private collection, Bern, by 1986;

Private collection, Europe, by 2008.

N. Salomon, Jacob Duck and the Gentrification of Dutch Genre Painting, Doornspijk 1998, pp. 129 and 147, no. 26, reproduced pl. 121;

J. Rosen, Jacob Duck, c. 1600–1667, Wormerveer 2017, pp. 48, 49, 51, 53, 54 and 161, no. 54, reproduced (with incorrect dimensions, as whereabouts unknown).

Another interpretation of this charming subject, featuring the same fortune teller, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.¹ A study for this figure executed on paper is in the Museen für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Lübeck.²

¹ Inv. no. 1971.102; oil on panel, oval; 25.1 x 33 cm.; https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436221

² Inv. no. AB 194; brush and brown ink; 18.4 x 14 cm.; Rosen 2017, p. 269, no. C-1, reproduced.