The Fortune Teller

c. 1640

Jean Ganière

Artist, French, died 1666

Augustin Quesnel

Publisher, French, active 1639 - 1644

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching with engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Faya Causey in memory of Philip Conisbee

  • Dimensions

    plate: 34 × 49 cm (13 3/8 × 19 5/16 in.)
    sheet: 35.1 × 50.2 cm (13 13/16 × 19 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2013.184.5

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    IFF(1600), no. 32, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Faya Causey, Washington, D.C.); gift to NGA, 2013.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1939

  • IFF (1600), no. 32, i/ii

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Valentin pinxit et inuentor in Roma / Ganières sculpsit; lower right in plate: Aug. Quesnel excud. / Rue Betizi, A Paris; lower center in plate: four verses (Apres diverses adventures... / ...Que ceux qui s'amusent à boire); by later hand, lower center in graphite: H3; by later hand, lower center in brown ink: 38R(?)

Wikidata ID

Q77006353

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